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Recommended Option Books - Resources

Lee Lowell

Get Rich With Options: Four Winning Strategies Straight from the Exchange Floor ($39.95)

Filled with in-depth insight and expert advice, Get Rich with Options provides you with the knowledge and strategies needed to achieve optimal results within the options market. The book quickly covers the basics—how options are priced, strike price selection, the use of Delta, and using volatility to one's advantage—before moving on to the four options trading strategies that have helped Lowell profit in this arena time and again: buying deep-in-the-money call options, selling naked puts, selling option credit spreads, and selling covered calls. Using these strategoes decisively, he says, is the fastest route to riches in the options trading game.

Title: Get Rich With Options: Four Winning Strategies Straight from the Exchange Floor
Author:
Lee Lowell
Hardcover: 240 pages
Publication Date: January 2, 2007
ISBN: 0470046619
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Mark Whistler

Trading Pairs: Capturing Profits and Hedging Risk with Statistical Arbitrage Strategies

Pairs trading is by no means the "holy grail" of trading, but with the proper base of applicable knowledge and impeccable money management skills, you'll find yourself with an effective trading strategy for any market environment.  Filled with in-depth insights and practical advice, this book will help those who don't have access to expensive trading software create live spread-sheets, track pairs like a pro, and increase the bottom line of their portfolios.

Title: Trading Pairs: Capturing Profits and Hedging Risk with Statistical Arbitrage Strategies
Author:
Mark Whistler
Hardcover: 297 pages
Publication Date: Wiley, July 2004
ISBN: 0471584282
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Trade With Passion and Purpose: Spiritual, Psychological and Philosophical Keys to Becoming a Top Trader

In Trade with Passion and Purpose, Whistler draws from the fields of psychology, spirituality, and philosophy to illuminate the path to profitable trading. This engaging book acknowledges how difficult it is to consistently win in the markets, but at the same time, it demonstrates how adhering to a small number of core principles can vastly improve your chances of success. Divided into three comprehensive parts, this book will take you on a journey of self-discovery that will help you hone your skills as a trader.

Title: Trade With Passion and Purpose: Spiritual, Psychological and Philosophical Keys to Becoming a Top Trader
Author:
Mark Whistler
Hardcover: 257 pages
Publication Date: Wiley, March 2007
ISBN: 0470039086
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Dr. Van K. Tharp

Trade Your Way to Financial Freedom ($29.95)

The bestselling holy grail of trading information has been fully updated to address all the concerns of today's market environment. With substantial new material, this second edition features Tharp's new 17-step trading model. Trade Your Way to Financial Freedom also addresses reward to risk multiples, as well as insightful new interviews with top traders, and features updated examples and charts.

Title: Trade Your Way to Financial Freedom
Author:
Van K. Tharp
Hardcover: 482 pages
Publication Date: November 22, 2006
ISBN: 007147871X
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Lawrence G. McMillan is the President of McMillan Analysis Corporation.  He has spoken on options strategies at many seminars and colloquiums in the United States, Canada and Europe. In addition, he trades his own account actively in the options markets.  He was formerly Senior Vice President in charge of the Equity Arbitrage Department at Thomson McKinnon Securities, Inc. Mr. McMillan currently resides in Randolph, NJ.  His books include:

Profit with Options: Essential Methods for Investing Success  ($29.70)

Unique course book covering every phase of the options trading process step-by-step, and reinforcing individual concepts through end of chapter quizzes, allowing readers to refine their skills.

Title: Profit with Options: Essential Methods for Investing Success
Author:
Lawrence G. McMillan
Hardcover: 276 pages
Publication Date: May 15, 2002
ISBN: 0471225312
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Options As A Strategic Investment 4th Edition
  ($47.25)

Considered the bible of options trading. Now completely revised and updated with the latest trading vehicles and applications available.

Title: Options As A Strategic Investment 4th Edition
Author:
Lawrence G. McMillan
Hardcover: 896 pages
Publication Date: January 1, 2001
ISBN: 0735201978
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New Insights on Covered Call Writing: The Powerful Technique That Enhances Return and Lowers Risk in Stock Investing   ($26.37)

A good book if you already have a grasp of the basic concepts of covered call writing, but are more interested in why covered call writing works rather than how to use the concept to make money.

Title:New Insights on Covered Call Writing: The Powerful Technique That Enhances Return and Lowers Risk in Stock Investing
Author: Lawrence G. McMillan
Hardcover: 240 pages
Publication Date: May, 2003
ISBN: 1576601331
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McMillan On Options
  ($50.37)

Not only expands the original research to include single-stock futures, LEAPS, ETFs, and volatility futures but goes beyond theory and reveals his personal strategies and new methods.

Title: McMillan On Options
Author: Lawrence G. McMillan
Hardcover: 648 pages
Publication Date: September, 2004
ISBN: 0471678759
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New Thinking In Technical Analysis: Trading Models From The Masters
($37.80)

Bernie Schaeffer and Larry Williams’ Treatise on Sentiment, Steve Nison on Candlesticks, Elliott Wave counting, Peter Steidelmayer’s Market Analysis, the basic idea behind the mysterious Turtle Trading System’s Money Management, and options wizard Larry McMillan reviewing how volatility and options interact at such a price.

Title: New Thinking In Technical Analysis: Trading Models From The Masters
Author:
Rick Bensignor
Hardcover: 304 pages
Publication Date: November, 2000
ISBN: 1576600491
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James B. Bittman began his trading career in 1980 as a market maker at the Chicago Board Options Exchange. From 1983 to 1993, he was a Commodity Options Member of the Chicago Board of Trade where he traded options on financial futures and agricultural futures. He is currently Senior Instructor at The Options Institute, the educational arm of the CBOE, where he teaches courses for public investors, brokers and institutional money managers. He has also presented custom classes all over the world.

Options for the Stock Investor: How to Use Options to Enhance and Protect Return  ($13.58)

This extensively revised second edition features all-new material describing electronic trading, decimalization, and single stock futures, along with increasingly popular vehicles such as stock indexes, LEAPS, and exchange-traded funds; contains CD-ROM.

Title: Options for the Stock Investor: How to Use Options to Enhance and Protect Returns
Author: James B. Bittman
Hardcover: 303 pages
Publication Date: May 18, 2005
ISBN: 0071443045
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Trading Index Options
($26.37)

Among the key features: the basics of index options, including various spreads; how to match strategies with forecasts; alternatives for losing positions; the importance of price behavior and volatility. A Windows-based software program that provides multiple options pricing and graphing is included in the package.

Title: Trading Index Options
Author:
James B. Bittman
Hardcover: 250 pages
Publication Date: May 31, 1998
ISBN: 0786312300
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Marcel Link, a fully licensed commodities broker and CPO, is currently a propriety trader for Schonfeld Securities in New York. He owns and operates his own website (LinkFutures.com). He was also a floor trader at the New York Mercantile Exchange for British American Capital, Esco Commodities and Cargill.

High Probability Trading ($26.37)

Showing you how to weed the bad trades from your trading day by helping you identify them before they occur. Packed with charts, trading tips and questions traders should be asking themselves, plus real examples of traders of every market situation, this book will first give you the knowledge and tools you need to tame the markets and meld them seamlessly into a customized trading program

Title: High Probability Trading
Author:
Marcel Link
Hardcover: 288 pages
Publication Date: March 17, 2003
ISBN: 0071381562
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Scott Barrie owns Commodity, Futures and Equity Analytics and is the former head of research and operations for Great Pacific Trading Company in Oregon, an educational brokerage specializing in introducing newcomers to speculating in the futures and options markets. He has 12 years’ experience in the financial derivatives industry, including time as a trader and hedge specialist. He is a regular contributor to Stocks and Commodities magazine and Stock Traders Almanac.

A Complete Idiot’s Guide to Options and Futures ($13.57)

In this book is information on the latest trends in investing, such as single stock futures.  Also included are tips on how to safely invest in managed futures funds along with basic information on such commodities as foreign currency, grains, meats, softs and metals.  You will also find easy definitions of investing terms you’ll need, including “calls,” “puts” and “selling short.”

Title: A Complete Idiot's Guide to Options and Futures
Author: Scott Barrie
Hardcover: 360 pages
Publication Date: September 14, 2001
ISBN: 0028641388
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George Fontanills
heads Pinnacle Investments of America, Inc., a hedge fund and money management company. Pinnacle has recorded amazing returns for its investors using high profit and low-risk options trading strategies. George has been publishing his innovative strategies through www.optionetics.com and by teaching his highly popular Optionetics Seminars. Prior to Pinnacle, he was a principal in a successful floor operation on the American Stock Exchange.

Trade Options Online ($19.77)

Trade Options Online also includes a comprehensive guide to fundamental and technical analysis methodologies, a detailed list of 240 hot financial resources, websites analyzed from the point of view of an online options trader, and a review of more than 70 online brokerages. Trade Options Online is your complete guide to earning a living and making a killing as an online options trader.

Title: Trade Options Online
Author: George Fontanills
Hardcover: 368 pages
Publication Date: October 27, 1999
ISBN: 0471359386
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