Single Stock Futures

by Patrick Lafferty

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Product Description

All about the trading world's hottest new product, from today's leading expert

Already hugely popular in London, and backed by Chicago's largest futures and options exchanges, single stock futures have the potential to be among the biggest in the U.S. marketplace. Single Stock Futuresthe first book on this exciting financial instrumentexplains what single stock futures are, how they work, and how to trade them, providing avid traders with both an introduction and an in-depth education on these hot additions to the futures marketplace.

The influential Bridge Trader says single stock futures "could end up becoming the biggest derivative of them all." Readers will find out why, as Single Stock Futures reveals:

Must-know specifics such as margin requirements and contract specifications
Market-tested strategies, including hedging, spread trading, and short selling
Advantages of single stock futuresincluding liquidity and standardized contractsover outright stock ownership

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All Customer Reviews
Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1 out of 5 stars

Single Stock Futures, 2003-07-18
Don't bother buying this book. It is so general and vague it's not worth the money. It rehashes tech analysis etc., that most would already know. It sheds no light into the world of SSF at all.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5 out of 5 stars

Helpful with trading., 2003-01-15
Good introduction to trading with futures. I appreciated the trading indicators and methods shared by the author. Knowing what stock futures are and knowing how to actually trade them are two different things, and this book does a valuable service in sharing good trading strategies with us. Thank you!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5 out of 5 stars

complete intro, 2002-08-28
Good: Great introduction for a new trader trying to get up to speed with this investment. Author uses clear, basic approach to describing and teaching.

Bad: There could have been more information on how to spread trade with these investments. There's also a lot of basic techinical analysis overviewed (but I suppose this would be helpful to inexperienced tech traders.) And, the book is not real long and goes a little too quick.

Overall, I recommend the book

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4 out of 5 stars Good Teaching Tool, 2002-08-16
The book gave a solid, basic background and explaination about this investment. I like that it didn't try to be tricky or complicated. It just taught me what this thing was about,and then showed me how to go about trading in it. I like the part of the book about setting up for trading over the internet too, I thought it contained some nice insight.

Bottom line from me, a traditional stock investor, it was a clear and helpful education.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1 out of 5 stars Not much content, 2002-08-15
I was interested in learning more about single stock futures for trading and hedging my portfolio, but found that this book did not have much content overall since it was published before the product began trading. There is a good review of basic futures trading but the info on single stock futures is limited and I am going to look to read more about the topic in other texts. This book offers mostly basic overview of the new product and not detail on how to use it to protect portfolios or apply to trading.

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