Published by FT Publishing International (August 27, 2013) © 2014
Lenny JordanThe Financial Times Guide to Options, will introduce you to the instruments and markets of options, giving you the confidence to trade successfully. Options are explained in real-life terminology, using every-day examples and accessible language. Introducing three key options markets – stocks, bonds and commodities, the book explains options contracts from straight vanilla options to strangles and butterflies and covers the fundamentals of options pricing and trading
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- Preface
- About the author
- About this book
- Introduction
- Part 1 – Options fundamentals
- 1 Options in Everyday life
- 2 The basics of calls
- 3 The basics of puts
- 4 Pricing and behaviour
- 5 Volatility and pricing models
- 6 The Greeks and risk assessment: delta
- 7 Gamma and theta
- 8 Vega
- Part 2 - Options spreads
- 9 Call spreads and put spreads
- 10 One by two directional spreads
- 11 Combos and hybrid spreads for market direction
- 12 Volatility spreads
- 13 Iron butterflies and iron condors
- 14 Butterflies and condors
- 15 The covered write, the calendar spread and the diagonal spread
- Part 3 – Thinking about options
- 16 The interaction of the Greeks
- 17 Options performance based on cost
- 18 Options talk 1
- 19 Options talk 2: trouble shooting and common problems
- 20 Volatility skews
- Part 4 – Basic non-essentials
- 21 Futures, synthetics and put-call parity
- 22 Conversions, reversals, boxes and options arbitrage
- 23 Conclusion
- Glossary
- Suggestions for further reading
- Index of underlying contracts