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Option Volatility & Pricing: Advanced Trading Strategies and Techniques » (1st Edition)

Book cover image of Option Volatility & Pricing: Advanced Trading Strategies and Techniques by Sheldon Natenberg

Authors: Sheldon Natenberg, Jeffrey M. Cohen
ISBN-13: 9781557384867, ISBN-10: 155738486X
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, The
Date Published: August 1994
Edition: 1st Edition

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Author Biography: Sheldon Natenberg

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Book Synopsis

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 sections include:

  • Expanded coverage of stock option
  • Strategies for stock index futures and options
  • A broader, more in-depth discussion volatility
  • Analysis of volatility skews
  • Intermarket spreading with options

Table of Contents

Preface to the First Edition
Preface to the Second Edition
1The Language of Options1
2Elementary Strategies13
3Introduction to Theoretical Pricing Models35
4Volatility51
5Using an Option's Theoretical Value81
6Option Values and Changing Market Conditions95
7Introduction to Spreading127
8Volatility Spreads137
9Risk Considerations173
10Bull and Bear Spreads199
11Option Arbitrage213
12Early Exercise of American Options241
13Hedging with Options257
14Volatility Revisited273
15Stock Index Futures and Options301
16Intermarket Spreading331
17Position Analysis353
18Models and the Real World385
Appendix A A Glossary of Option and Related Terminology419
Appendix B The Mathematics of Option Pricing431
Appendix C Characteristics of Volatility Spreads449
Appendix D What's the Right Strategy?451
Appendix E Synthetic and Arbitrage Relationships453
Appendix F Recommended Reading457
Index463

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