Trading options in turbulent markets : master uncertainty through active volatility management / / Larry Shover ; cover design by C. Wallace

• Autore: Shover Larry
• Pubblicazione: Hoboken, New Jersey : , : Bloomberg Press, , 2013; ©2013
• Edizione: 2nd ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (302 p.)
• Disciplina: 332.64/53; 332.642; 332.6453
• Soggetto topico: Options (Finance); Risk management
• Altri autori: WallaceC
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Trading Options in Turbulent Markets: Master Uncertainty through Active Volatility Management; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Understanding the Relationship between Market Turbulence and Option Volatility; Chapter 1: Managing Risk and Uncertainty with Options; What Is Risk?; What Is Uncertainty?; Seven Lessons Learned from Market Volatility; Lesson One; Lesson Two; Lesson Three; Lesson Four; Lesson Five; Lesson Six; Lesson Seven; Lessons Summary; Understanding Derivatives; Options Defined; Futures Defined; Understanding Options ; The Six Benefits of OptionsBenefit One: The Ability to Leverage; Benefit Two: Creating Market Efficiency; Benefit Three: Cost Efficiency; Benefit Four: 24/7 Protection; Benefit Five: Flexibility; Benefit Six: Trading Additional Dimensions; Chapter 2: Making Sense of Volatility in Options Trading; Volatility as an Asset Class; How Does Volatility Work?; Analyzing Volatility with Implied Volatility; What Does Implied Volatility Reveal?; Making Trading Decisions Based on the Disparity between Historical and Implied Volatility; Appreciating Volatility for All It Is Worth ; How Volatility Really Works on the Trading FloorVolatility and Uncertainty: Lessons for the Irrational Option Trader; Varieties of Option Volatility Trading; Chapter 3: Working with Volatility to Make Investment Decisions; On Predicting the Future; Starting with Historical Volatility; Calculating Historical Volatility; Implied Volatility; Calculating Implied Volatility; Why Do Volatilities Increase as Equities Fall?; Implied versus Historical Volatility; Justification for the Disparity between Historical and Implied Volatility; Chapter 4: Volatility Skew: Smile or Smirk? ; Considering Some ExamplesA Primer on Random Walk and Normal Distribution; Dealing with the Higher Moments of the Normal Distribution; Skew Is High, Skew Is Low. So What?; Does a ""Flat"" or ""Steep"" Skew Predict the Future?; A Fair Warning about Thinking about Skew too Much; Chapter 5: Fixated on Volatility and the VIX: What Is Volatility, Anyhow?; What We (Think) We Know; Definitions of VIX; Grasping the VIX Index; VIX-A (Very) Brief History; VIX: Calculation and Interpretation with a Simple Calculator; Important Insights on the VIX Index; What Does the VIX Tell Us? ; Delta, Position Delta, Volatility, and the Professional Trader
• Sommario/riassunto: Top options expert Larry Shover returns to discuss how to interpret, and profit from, market volatility Trading Options in Turbulent Markets, Second Edition skillfully explains the intricacies of options volatility and shows you how to use options to cope, and profit from, market turbulence. Throughout this new edition, options expert Larry Shover reveals how to use historical volatility to predict future volatility for a security and addresses how you can utilize that knowledge to make better trading decisions. Along the way, he also defines the so-called Greeks-delta, vega,
• Titolo autorizzato: Trading options in turbulent markets
• ISBN: 1-118-52404-7; 1-118-41663-5; 1-283-86930-6; 1-118-42021-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910138866203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Bloomberg Financial