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	Options For The Stock Investor: How Any Investor Can Use Options to Enhance and Protect their Return by: James B. Bittman Options for the Stock Investor thoroughly explains how to use stock options safely and effectively. James Bittman demonstrates how to integrate options into a long-term investment program explaining in a clear and simple language time-proven strategies that will add value to any investor's portfolio. He recommends specific strategies for investors with various risk tolerances and investment goals. Authoritative and enlightening, this book is complete with tests and a graphic summary of option strategies. For individual investors seeking to profit with options, Options for the Stock Investor is an invaluable resource. Specific topics include: The mechanics of basic option strategies Understanding option price behavior Selling options on the stocks you own Using options to achieve your long-term investment goals Option strategies for both newcomers and veterans
	Exchange Traded Funds And E-Mini Stock Index Futures by: David Lerman Exchange Traded Funds and E-mini Stock Index Futures offers investors, traders, investment advisors, and brokers a full-scale examination of these extraordinary products including: The nuts and bolts of ETFs and E-mini stock index futures, including the advantages and attributes of each product, the basics of stock index futures from the clearinghouse to performance bond margins, and contract specifications How ETFs and E-mini stock index futures can fit into nearly any investor’s portfolio and reduce costs, increase returns, and alleviate the tax burdens commonly associated with traditional mutual funds Blending active management and indexing to create "core-satellite" strategies widely implemented by institutions How to use E-mini stock index futures for trading and spreading strategies, hedging, and other risk management strategies. With numerous charts, graphics, and case studies, Exchange Traded Funds and E-mini Stock Index Futures is a valuable resource for anyone looking to understand these tools and obtain superb results.
	Option Volatility & Pricing: Advanced Trading Strategies and Techniques by: Sheldon Natenberg One of the most widely read books among active option traders around the world, Option Volatility & Pricing has been completely updated to reflect the most current developments and trends in option products and trading strategies. Featuring: Pricing models Volatility considerations Basic and advanced trading strategies Risk management techniques And more! Written in a clear, easy-to-understand fashion, Option Volatility & Pricing points out the key concepts essential to successful trading. Drawing on his experience as a professional trader, author Sheldon Natenberg examines both the theory and reality of option trading. He presents the foundations of option theory explaining how this theory can be used to identify and exploit trading opportunities. Option Volatility & Pricing teaches you to use a wide variety of trading strategies and shows you how to select the strategy that best fits your view of market conditions and individual risk tolerance. New sections include: Expanded coverage of stock option Strategies for stock index futures and options A broader, more in-depth discussion volatility Analysis of volatility skews Intermarket spreading with options
	LEAPS: Long-Term Equity Anticipation Securites: What They Are and How to Use Them for Profit and Protection by: Harrison Roth LEAPS: What They Are and How to Use Them for Profit and Protection is the first-ever guide to understanding and using the most successful new product in the listed options market. Straightforward and easy to read, LEAPS clearly explains the concepts behind the creation of long term equity anticipation securities as well as basic strategies, from bullish to bearish to neutral. This unique guide also provides: A thorough historical perspective on LEAPS, emphasizing why they are different from conventional options, so investors can determine how LEAPS fit into their personal goals Incisive analysis of investment strategies built around LEAPS, with shrewd advice on how to contain and even drastically reduce risk Hundreds of practical examples that show readers how to implement basic LEAPS strategies
	The Disciplined Trader: Developing Winning Attitudes by: Mark Douglas The Disciplined Trader helps you join the elite few who have learned how to control their trading behavior (the few traders who consistently take the greatest of profits out of the market) by developing a systematic, step-by-step approach for winning week after week, month after month. The Disciplined Trader is divided into four parts: An overview of the psychological requirements of the trading environment A definition of the problems and challenges of becoming a successful trader Basic insights into what behavior may need to be changed, and how to build a framework for accomplishing a goal How to develop specific trading skills based on a clear, objective perspective on market action In a comprehensive and logical manner, Mark Douglas shows you how to examine and limit your trading behavior-how to develop the mental discipline possessed by the small minority of winners who make money consistently (weekly, monthly, yearly).
	McMillan on Options by: Lawrence G. McMillan With revealing insights on the predictive power of options, trading systems, and strategies, both short- and long-term investors will appreciate McMillan's in-depth coverage of: Stock, index, and futures options A wide range of strategies—and how they can help you make money numerous case studies, figures, and examples that illustrate key Concepts and ideas The methodology of trading, from order entry to data sources The integration of theoretical issues with practical applications of techniques, strategies, and trading methods Illuminated by the author's personal options philosophy, McMillan on Options is the most up-to-date, innovative, and complete option strategy resource available.
	Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk by: Peter L. Bernstein With the stock market breaking records almost daily, leaving longtime market analysts shaking their heads and revising their forecasts, a study of the concept of risk seems quite timely. Peter Bernstein has written a comprehensive history of man's efforts to understand risk and probability, beginning with early gamblers in ancient Greece, continuing through the 17th-century French mathematicians Pascal and Fermat and up to modern chaos theory. Along the way he demonstrates that understanding risk underlies everything from game theory to bridge-building to winemaking.
	Managing Foreign Exchange Risk By Dominic Bennett This book explains the foreign exchange market in clear concise terms and relates the foreign exchange market to risk management techniques in a proper context. Focusing on matters that concern organizations which use the foreign exchange markets in the course of normal business the book provides analytical and practical tools to identify and manage foreign exchange exposure.
	Mastering Foreign Exchange and Money Markets By Paul Roth A step by step guide to products, applications and risks. An up-to-date practical primer focusing on the wholesale markets, instruments, applications and risk management techniques. The book addresses market conditions, pricing and valuation of various instruments and trading startegies. Included with the book is a powerful real-time dealing simulation software disc. The version included enables you to trade spot FX, eurodeposits, and forward FX allowing you to measure your performance and improve your dealing skills.
	Options for the Stock Investor/Book and Disk By James B. Bittman An excellent introduction to the fundamentals of options and the use of options in risk managment for stock portfolios, position management and income enhancement. The book offers a practical view with numerous well defined and explained examples. If you wonder how options can play a role in a conservative, long term inverstment program then this book with its valuable software package included will be of benefit to you.
	The Technical Analysis Course By Thomas A. Meyers The technical analysis course leads the reader through a personalized course of study on a variety of technical analysis techiques and tools that provides the critical tools, materials, and plans necessary to trade more profitably. Written in a clear no nonsense style this book will train you to empirically analyze market data for better profits
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