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Record Nr.

UNINA9910138960603321

Autore

Rhoads Russell

Titolo

Trading weekly options : pricing characteristics and short-term trading strategies / / Russell Rhoads ; Wiley, cover design

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, New Jersey : , : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-118-72738-X

1-118-84831-4

1-118-72717-7

Edizione

[1st edition]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (275 p.)

Collana

Wiley Trading Series

Altri autori (Persone)

Wiley

Disciplina

332.6453

Soggetti

Options (Finance)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Trading Weekly Options; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 Introducing Weekly Options; Evolution of Weekly Options; Popularity of Weekly Options; Option Expiration Dates Explained; Option Symbols and Weekly's; Chapter 2 Short-Term Index Options; Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJX); Russell 2000 (RUT); NASDAQ-100 (NDX); S&P 100 Weeklys (OEX and XEO); S&P 500 (SPX, SPXPM, SPXW); Index Option Comparisons; Comparing Index and Exchange-Traded Fund Options; Chapter 3 Weekly Options on Equities and Exchange-Traded Products; Stocks; Exchange-Traded Products

Leveraged Exchange-Traded Products Inverse Exchange-Traded Products; Volatility-Related Exchange-Traded Products; Summary; Chapter 4 Option-Pricing Factors and Short-Dated Option Contracts; Underlying Market Price; Days to Expiration; Implied Volatility; Interest Rates; Dividends; Chapter 5 Time Decay and Short-Dated Options; Behavior of Time Decay; Weekends and Time Decay; Time Decay and Trading Decisions; Avoiding Time Decay; Chapter 6 Implied Volatility and Weekly Options; Time to Expiration and Implied Volatility; Interpreting Implied Volatility; Behavior of Implied Volatility

Implied Volatility across Expiration Dates and Strike Prices Vertical Skew; Horizontal Skew; Chapter 7 Developing Your Trading Plan; Markets to Trade; Trading Strategies; Trading Decisions; Capital and



Risk Management; Keeping a Trading Record; Tying It All Together; Chapter 8 Long Option Trades; Long Call; Long Put; Chapter 9 Short Option Trades; Short Call; Short Put; Selling a Put to Purchase Shares; CBOE PutWrite Index; Tying Short-Dated Option Selling Together; Chapter 10 Covered Calls and Buy-Writes; Covered Call Basics; Covered Call Trading Examples; Covered Calls and Dividends

Index Options and Covered CallsCBOE S&P 500 BuyWrite Index; CBOE S&P 500 2 Percent OTM BuyWrite Index; Chapter 11 Hedging with Short-Dated Options; Protective Put; Protective Put Trading Example; The Collar; Trading Example Using the Collar; The Modified Collar; The Modified Collar Trading Example; Chapter 12 Bullish Spread Trading; Bullish Vertical Spread; Bullish Spread Trading Examples; Bullish-Trend Trade; Bullish Reversal Trade; Bullish Breakout Trade; Chapter 13 Bearish Spread Trading; Bearish Vertical Spread; Bearish Spread Trading Examples; Bearish Trend Trade; Bearish Reversal Trade

Bearish Breakout Trade Chapter 14 Neutral Spread Trading; Iron Butterfly; Iron Butterfly Trading Examples; Iron Condor; Iron Condor Trading Examples; Chapter 15 Split Strike Long Spreads; Synthetic Long and Short; Split-Strike Positions; Split-Strike Trading Example; Bull-Put Spread Plus Long Call; Chapter 16 Calendar Spreads; Calendar Spread Overview; Time Value and Implied Volatility; Option Skew; Trading Example; Chapter 17 Diagonal Spreads; Diagonal Spread Overview; Short-Term Diagonal Spreads; Short-Term Bullish Diagonal Spread; Short-Term Bearish Diagonal Spread

Long-Term Diagonal Spreads

Sommario/riassunto

A comprehensive resource for understanding and trading weekly options Weekly options are traded on all major indices, as well as high volume stocks and ETFs. They continue to surge in popularity, accounting for as much as twenty percent of daily options volume. And while existing options strategy can be used with weeklys, they are particularly conducive to premium selling strategies and short-term trades based on a news item or technical pattern. With this timely guide, and its companion video, you'll learn exactly how to use weeklys to make more money from option selling strategies a