Options Trading 101: From Theory to Application

by Bill Johnson

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Discover Powerful and Profitable Option Trading Strategies That Can Limit Your Risk While Multiplying Your Profits in Today's Markets. Options Trading 101 was written as a complete introductory guide for investors and traders who want to understand the world of options. While it is labeled as an introductory book, it is anything but a general overview. It starts by exploring the most fundamental concepts of options trading and ends with some basic strategies that traders will fully understand and be able to use immediately. In a clear, concise way readers will be led through the most important topics that are necessary to master and advance with options trading. Options Trading 101 makes use of many fun examples including Gordon Gekko's mistake in the hit movie "Wall Street" from not understanding put-call parity.

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Average Customer Review: 4 out of 5 stars

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1 out of 5 stars

Proofreader was AWOL, 2008-07-07
This book had so many errors and blatant contradictions it was more confusing than the genealogy of Jesus. It will have your head spinning so fast some may mistake you for Linda Blair! The author blitzes the reader with math and details the understanding of which simply is unnecessary in order to trade options and could easily intimidate someone new to trading. The excessive errors found throughout the text are inexcusable, especially for a technical book. When practical applications are finally covered in the final third of the book, we aren't presented with anything really interesting. The Iron Condor strategy is mentioned once earlier but is quickly dismissed in a condescending manner as if someone who could thread through all that math wouldn't easily pick up that relatively simple concept! If you are new to trading and don't want to be more confused after you read this book than before you picked it up, this one should be avoided.

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5 out of 5 stars

Awesome book, 2008-07-04
A very good book. Written in a very easy way. Just can't stop reading it.

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4 out of 5 stars

Excellent Material, but needs Indexing, 2008-06-22
I'm a newbie to options and find this book very understandable. The analogies in the book help one understand the nature of options.

My only criticism is that the book is not indexed. If I want to review a certain concept, sometimes it's difficult to relocate it because there is no index.

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4 out of 5 stars

Excellent material but needs better proofing., 2008-06-14
Bill Johnsons Options 101 trading book is an excellent introduction to the how's and why's of option trading. The style of this book is exactly like many college math and science textbooks with examples and problem sets. I personally have benefited from the discourse on the "roll-up," which is a strategy I had not come across previously in other training material.

The book suffers, however, from poor proof-reading of the arithmetic. There are many places where the numbers don't add-up to what the words are saying, and vice-versa. Some may find that scribbling the corrections in the margins improves comprehension but if your arithmetic skills are weak then this book may not be for you. I think Options Trading 101 deserves a 2nd edition to correct the errors.

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4 out of 5 stars

Starts slow, but pays off in the end, 2008-03-28
I got somewhat impatient with the basic and repetitive nature of the first third of this book, but pace and complexity really picked up as things went along. The description of synthetic options was eye-opening, and introduction to spreads near the end was very good. Recommended as beginner to intermediate text.

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