James B. Bittman is a senior instructor at the The Options Institute, which is the educational arm of the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE). A recipient of the 2003 Traders Library Hall of Fame Award, Bittman was a market maker at the CBOE before he traded options on financial and agricultural futures at the Chicago Board of Trade. He is the author of Options for the Stock Investor, Trading Index Options, and Trading and Hedging with Agriculture Futures and Options, all published by McGraw-Hill.
