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Trading Options For Dummies | 
 enlarge | Author: George A. Fontanills
Publisher: For Dummies
Category: Book
List Price: $24.99
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Rating:  11 reviews
Media: Paperback
Pages: 384
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 7.4 x 1
ISBN: 0470241764
Dewey Decimal Number: 332.632283
EAN: 9780470241769
Publication Date: March 31, 2008
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Product Description
Thinking of trading options, but not sure where to start? Trading Options For Dummies starts you from the beginning with clear, step-by-step advice on how to use top option strategies to reduce your risk while boosting your income and enlarging your retirement portfolio with index, equity, and ETF options. This plain-English guide explains the common types of options and helps you choose the right ones for your investing needs. You find out how to weigh option costs and benefits, combine options to reduce risk, and build a strategy that allows you to gain no matter what the market may bring. You’ll learn the basics of market and sector analysis and what to look for when trying out a new option strategy. You’ll also find what you need to know about options contract specifications and mechanics. Discover how to: - Understand option contracts and orders
- Determine and manage your risk
- Guard your assets using options
- Trade options on securities exchanges
- Protect your rights and satisfy your contract obligations
- Target sectors using technical analysis
- Minimize potential losses and optimize rewards
- Map out your plan of attack
- Limit your downside when trading the trend
- Combine options to limit your position risk
- Benefit from exchange traded funds
- Key in on volatility for trading opportunities
- Capitalize on sideways movements
Trading options is serious business. Trading Options For Dummies gives you the expert help you need to succeed.
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 Clearly Options June 5, 2010
Y. Renee Shearer (Portland, OR USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Having already been educated in trading options, I found this book to be a good "review" and a great book to share with others interested in knowing what Options are all about. Like most Dummy books, it is easy to read and reference - and filled with excellent charts and real world trade examples. I would recommend it to beginners wholeheartedly.
You guys have judged this too harshly June 2, 2010
J. Abshire
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Options is an area that is very complex, and, if anything, the author dumbed it down too much. There are a lot of ways to make mistakes with options.
This book does a good job of covering the basics and beyond. If you are having trouble understanding parts of it, don't blame the book. The subject matter is difficult for those new to it. Take your time with this material. Unlike other areas of study, being wrong in options can cost you money. While the author lists some pros and cons with paper trading, I found it to be useful for my own learning. Look for a brokerage that offers this. This will also help you get used to the mechanics of opening and closing positions without risking actual money.
Also, you do not have to master the numerous strategies discussed in the book to make use of options. You can buy single calls and puts and gain leverage while keeping thigs simple.
The author has written more advanced books when you are ready to dig into the statistics more deeply.
 What a terrible book. November 25, 2009
K. Foust (Dana Point, CA)
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
I picked up this book to learn about options as a supplement to my stock investing. The first three times I tried to read the book I thought I was just too tired to "get it." Yesterday I became absolutely certain that this book is so poorly organized and edited that YOU WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND options and their strategies from reading the text. Moreover, the glossary in the back of the book is incomplete.
Don't even think about buying this text. It is worthless. I just threw my copy away this morning to insure that no one else would have it inflicted on them.
 I'm not a Dummie, but this book sure makes me feel like one! September 12, 2009
J. Robertson (Chicago, IL)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
I've read many books written for the Dummies series and this one is by far the worst. Fontanills seems to have a very strong personal understanding of options and what it takes to trade them successfully but NO idea of how to teach the basics successfully to others through the written word. I've spent entirely too much time going back to reread pages as he glosses over important information, information that is then required to continue to understand the following concepts. After barely highlighting key terms he often then only refers to them by their acronyms, again requiring you to page backward to find the info. Charts are frequently impossible to read and very few walk-through examples are given. He never stops to gather and go over the important information in a chapter or section and often leaves you clueless as to how things apply to the average day trader sitting at home in front of his computer. I like to think that I have more than a basic knowledge of the stock market and how it works but, with that said, way too much prior knowledge is assumed on his part for this too be an introductory book into anything.
These books are not cheap and, as far as I'm concerned, Fontanills owes me some money back!
Options for Idiots- Rated X July 18, 2009
Mark Sachs (Florida)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Options for idiots is one of the poorest written books of this series. Its set-up is confusing; there are no sections that delineate options strategies. Half the book is spent reviewing options basics, which is far too long. I think most people buy this book to learn basic option strategies, when to use what strategy, the advantage and disadvantage of each. This type of information is either buried in the book or just not present. This is a "dummies" book I would pass on, you should be able to find far better basic reviews.
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