Advanced Options Trading: Approaches, Tools, and Techniques for Professionals Traders

As an active trader in today’s market,

you are faced with unprecedented challenges. Dramatic

price swings in equity, debt, and currency have

made it tougher than ever to manage and trade risk.

But with great risk, of course, comes great opportunity—

and Advanced Options Trading delivers a

detailed system for successfully trading options in a

highly volatile and unpredictable global market.

Noted options educator and owner of his own

brokerage house, Kevin M. Kraus explains the best

practices for using options to capture premium,

reduce equity purchase prices, manage the costs of

buying options, and control portfolio risk—critical

skills for finding steady profits in our ever-shifting

economic landscape. He offers a close examination

of the nature of volatility and what it means for

investors, whether they’re just getting started or

are veterans of the options market.

Advanced Options Trading covers:

• The critical nature of forward-looking

  implied volatility

• Ways to level the volatility playing

  field with options

• Techniques for adding value to a

  portfolio while managing risk

• The functions of price hedging—

  and how to do it effectively

• Interest rate options and which

  factors drive debt markets

• Options analysis techniques

Options are among the most valuable tools for

hedging and risk management, and they also

function as profitable investment vehicles, allowing

you to make bearish trades through radical

market shifts.

Advanced Options Trading provides a solid foundation

on the options market, along with the necessary

skills for trading and managing risk in today’s constantly

expanding and contracting market.