Trade Options Online

Trade Options Online includes a comprehensive guide to fundamental and technical analysis methodologies, a detailed list of the best financial resources, websites analyzed from the point of view of an online options trader, and a review of the most popular online brokerages. This book  is your complete guide to earning a living and making a killing as an online options trader.

Introduction:

The text of this book concentrates on two main areas of focus: option strategies and online trading. The first few chapters center on introducing online trading practices into your everyday life as a trader. Since there is an overabundance of financial information available online, the web sites, brokerages, and products selected for review are those that we believe to be most useful to options investors. Each chapter includes personal tips and insights designed to enhance the online experience and act as building blocks for investment success.

Chapter 4 takes you step-by-step through stock and options basics (experienced traders may wish to skip this chapter). Chapters 5 through 9 provide a detailed analysis of various managed-risk option strategies that are designed to take advantage of everyday market opportunities using online resources. In order to enhance your ability to understand each strategy, I have included a hypothetical trade that details how to compute each strategy’s maximum risk, maximum profit, breakevens, and exit alternatives. A great deal of effort has been expended to test these strategies and to develop off-floor techniques that enable traders to consistently build up their trading accounts.

By focusing on clear explanations of how to really make money in the markets using options, this book refrains from exposing readers to information that is overly theoretical or technically complicated. In fact, technical analysis has been intentionally avoided. I want to help you integrate these options-based trading techniques into a comprehensive strategic trading plan that fits your own personal profile.

Chapter 10 takes a closer look at the futures market. Then we look at ways to improve the quality of the information used in the decision-making process by “Streamlining Your Approach” in Chapter 11. Chapter 12 offers concrete information regarding online brokerages and their ability to cater to the unique needs of the options trader. Following this in-depth review of available online brokerages, Chapter 13 delves into placing a trade online; although each online brokerage has its own unique design format, we take a walk through the basic online trading process. In Chapter 14, we delve into ways to manage trading risk and end this exploration by taking a look at the big picture.

In addition, several appendixes offer a variety of information geared to helping investors find what they need in order to maintain a competitive online edge. Appendix A contains a summary of key investment strategies; reviews profit, risk, and breakeven calculations; and supplies various tables that provide useful definitions, market acronyms, and other need-to-know material. Appendix B contains a glossary of fundamental and technical analysis methodologies. This handy reference guide is designed to help you define some of the more complex techniques that may be referenced over the Internet as clues to forecasting market price movements.

Appendix C contains a short list of options trading software and the Internet sites where they can be reviewed. Appendix D features reviews of more than 200 financial resource sites broken down into the following categories: supersites, news, research, education, technical analysis, options, webzines, high technology, exchanges, advisers, specialty sites, and fun and games. This exhaustive list of resource sites and reviews is the most comprehensive list I’ve ever run across and I’m proud to be able to share this wealth of knowledge in this book. Finally, Appendix E surveys online brokerages as they compare to one another in services, commissions, and resources.

This book is designed as an instructional guide to help you unleash the unlimited power of your computer and take advantage of what the Internet has to offer you as an options trader. It is also an instructional manual with the lowdown on managed-risk option strategies that allow you to make the most out of today’s volatile markets. If you’re ready, it’s time to join the fresh breed of online investors who are forging a new path with a wealth of resources at their fingertips. It is my deepest hope that this book may inspire you to become as passionate about online trading as I am. It’s time to seize hold of your financial destiny—mouse in hand—and venture forth into cyberspace in search of the next great trade.

Contents:

• the options market today
• online investing 101
• online trading resources
• a primer for trading stocks and options
• basic option trading strategies
• vertical spreads
• delta neutral strategies
• ratio spreads and backspreads
• sideways strategies
• the futures market
• online trading from A to Z
• the quest for the ultimate online brokerage
• order processing
• ready, set, engage

Trade Options Online By George A. Fontanills pdf