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21 Proven Strategies To Trading Options
21 Proven Strategies To Trading Options
Options Book?
- Thread starter canyonman00
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Thanks for all your suggestions. Bought the McMillian book last night. And I have just taken note of several of your suggestions and will be back at the store tomorrow night to look for some of them. I do enjoy stopping in at the book store from time to time and adding to the old library. Keep those suggestions coming! 
Options A Personal Seminar was decent, McMillan is pretty much king. The tough part is finding a book which tells you when not just the what.
second that. a very comprehensive reference.
a simpler list of some strategies, online:
http://www.optionsxpress.com/learn_strategies_longcall.htm
Quote from canyonman00:
As options go, I don't have any. I learned options the hard way. Then I just never went back to reading any doco. I live just minutes away from the CBOE and I have a lot of friends there. So trading options, it just sorta' happened.
Well, today someone was browsing my library and said, "You don't have any books on options." I thought for a minute and remembered that I have been saying for years that I was going to get some. Just never did. Well, now is as good a time as any. I have some recommendations from the guys at CBOE, just was looking for some more.
well a Chicago floor trader wrote a classic on Options Volatility & Pricing Strategy (Natenberg); and everyone nows Larry McMillan's tome...
get those two... and you're doing fine
Ice
I also think that any of Cottle's work is worth a look. They do have a downloadable version of his latest book "Woulda, Shoulda, Coulda" which is a revised version of his original "Options: Perception and Deception", which went out of print and is scarcely available(i.e a bunch of hawks trying to pawn it off on ebay).
I also have to say that when I first visited EliteTrader in Mar, 2002, there were numerous threads that visited these same concepts with a great deal of expertise. Many of these guys have left this site since, but some of those conversations last year were very professional...
There was also a thread at the end of last summer regarding "dispersion trading" and some of the replies focussed on various strategies along those lines. Again, some material that was more proprietary and "real world", not so theoretical (or limited to one having the "edge" of market making)...
I also have to say that when I first visited EliteTrader in Mar, 2002, there were numerous threads that visited these same concepts with a great deal of expertise. Many of these guys have left this site since, but some of those conversations last year were very professional...
There was also a thread at the end of last summer regarding "dispersion trading" and some of the replies focussed on various strategies along those lines. Again, some material that was more proprietary and "real world", not so theoretical (or limited to one having the "edge" of market making)...
1 copy of Cottle's book is offered used @ 199.50 on Amazon.
So you've been bitchin' and whinin' for a while now on ET about options. When are you going to spill the beans and reveal some of these "tricks"? Seems like you're just a scorned trader.