One of the most widely read books among active option traders around the world, Option Volatility & Pricing has been completely updated to reflect the most current developments and trends in option products and trading strategies. Featuring: Pricing models Volatility considerations Basic and advanced trading strategies Risk management techniques And more! Written in a clear, easy-to-understand fashion, Option Volatility & Pricing points out the key concepts essential to successful trading. Drawing on his experience as a professional trader, author Sheldon Natenberg examines both the theory and reality of option trading. He presents the foundations of option theory explaining how this theory can be used to identify and exploit trading opportunities. Option Volatility & Pricing teaches you to use a wide variety of trading strategies and shows you how to select the strategy that best fits your view of market conditions and individual risk tolerance. New s (more…)

As serious and sophisticated investors know, options are a viable and increasingly popular way to enhance their portfolios. Yet even the most savvy investors need instruction.Now in its third edition, The Options Workbook has been updated and reformatted in a larger, more convenient, and user-friendly design. Three all-new chapters explain key trading concepts-volatility, the collar, and the covered call-and show how these can be applied to mitigate risk and increase profits. What’s more, this fresh edition incorporates additional interactive content-exercises, hands-on tools, and lessons that complement the in-depth curriculum on ITI’s Web site, www.itichicago.com.

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“ITI is the reason for our success. We would never let anybody trade for us without the ITI education.” —Patrick Enblad Executive Director, Head of Trading Hagstromer & Gviberg Fondkommission AB Stockhold, Sweden As serious and savvy investors know, o (more…)

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“An excellent guide for learning how to trade option spreads. Saliba offers in-depth discussions on how and when to employ these advanced strategies and to manage the risk of each position.” Peter LipskyTrader, Pan Capital

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Hands down the definitive guide on spread trading. Must reading for any professional who wants to learn directly from one of the top leaders in the options industry.” —Larry Connors, CEO TradingMarkets.com “An excellent guide for learning how to trade option spreads. Saliba offers in-depth discussions on how and when to employ these advanced strategies and how to manage the risk of each position.” —Peter Lipski, trader Pan Capital “Option Spread Strategies: Trading Up, Down, and Sideways Markets is an invaluable addition to any market resource collection. The book concisely walks through the dynamics of spread strategies and guides the reader though the return and risk metrics of the t (more…)

Go beyond the basics, and learn about Advanced Option Trading Strategies. Learn about Call and Put Spreads, Option Straddles, and Option Strangles with Option Maestro’s Advanced Option Trading Strategies E-Book. Learn easily with step-by-step examples. 100% Money Back Guarantee!

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Learn How to Trade Options with Option Maestro’s Simplified Option Trading E-Book. A proven way to easily understand options – learn by actual examples. After reading this guide to trading options, you’ll be able to pay for it by writing your first covered call! 100% Money Back Guarantee! After reading you’ll be able to buy and sell both call and put options.

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A groundbreaking collection on currency derivatives, including pricing theory and hedging applications. “David DeRosa has assembled an outstanding collection of works on foreign exchange derivatives. It surely will become required reading for both students and option traders.”—Mark B. Garman President, Financial Engineering Associates, Inc. Emeritus Professor, University of California, Berkeley. “A comprehensive selection of the major references in currency option pricing.”—Nassim Taleb. Senior trading advisor, Paribas Author, Dynamic Hedging: Managing Vanilla and Exotic Options. “A useful compilation of articles on currency derivatives, going from the essential to the esoteric.”—Philippe Jorion Professor of Finance, University of California, Irvine Author, Value at Risk: The New Benchmark for Controlling Market Risk. Every investment practitioner knows of the enormous impact that the Black-Scholes option pricing model has had on investment an (more…)

Financial Derivatives provides a thorough introduction to financial derivatives and their importance to risk management in the corporate setting. The book has two principal goals: to offer a broad overview of the different types of financial derivatives while focusing on the principals that determine market prices, and to present financial derivatives as a tool for risk management in a corporate setting rather than as instruments of speculation.

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Written for financial managers who need to know how to protect company assets in today’s volatile financial markets as well as for the individual investor seeking a basic understanding of these sophisticated financial instruments, Financial Derivatives explains in nontechnical terms how to use key tools such as swaps, options, and futures to manage many different kinds of risk–including bond defaults and adverse moves in interest rates, foreign exchange rates, and commodity and stock price (more…)

An up-to-date look at the evolution of interest rate swaps and derivatives Interest Rate Swaps and Derivatives bridges the gap between the theory of these instruments and their actual use in day-to-day life. This comprehensive guide covers the main “rates” products, including swaps, options (cap/floors, swaptions), CMS products, and Bermudan callables. It also covers the main valuation techniques for the exotics/structured-notes area, which remains one of the most challenging parts of the market. Provides a balance of relevant theory and real-world trading instruments for rate swaps and swap derivatives Uses simple settings and illustrations to reveal key results Written by an experienced trader who has worked with swaps, options, and exoticsWith this book, author Amir Sadr shares his valuable insights with practitioners in the field of interest rate derivatives-from traders and marketers to those in operations.

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