Trading Options For Dummies
Chapter One
Options Trading and Investing
In This Chapter
* Developing an appreciation for options
* Using option analysis with any market approach
* Focusing on limiting risk
* Capitalizing on advanced techniques
Whether you're new to trading or an experienced investor, listed stock
and index options are great vehicles for managing risk and growing
your assets. The wide variety of strategies available using these securities
make them suitable for just about everyone - providing you understand
how they work and apply them properly. I started trading options decades
ago and found that by using different strategies I could implement trades
with reasonable risk-reward profiles throughout all those years.
Trading and investing are typically distinguished by timeframes. I consider
investing to be something you carry out to meet longer term financial goals.
Regardless of the plan you personally create to satisfy those goals, options
offer a means of protecting longer term assets during periods when the market ... read full excerpt from Trading Options For Dummies® ebook
