TRADING OPTIONS FOR DUMMIES

Thinking of trading options, but not sure where to start? Trading Options For Dummies starts you from the beginning with clear, step-by-step advice on how to use top option strategies to reduce your risk while boosting your income and enlarging your retirement portfolio with index, equity, and ETF options.
This plain-English guide explains the common types of options and helps you choose the right ones for your investing needs. You find out how to weigh option costs and benefits, combine options to reduce risk, and build a strategy that allows you to gain no matter what the market may bring. You'll learn the basics of market and sector analysis and what to look for when trying out a new option strategy. You'll also find what you need to know about options contract specifications and mechanics. Discover how to:
Understand option contracts and orders
Determine and manage your risk
Guard your assets using options
Trade options on securities exchanges
Protect your rights and satisfy your contract obligations
Target sectors using technical analysis
Minimize potential losses and optimize rewards
Map out your plan of attack
Limit your downside when trading the trend
Combine options to limit your position risk
Benefit from exchange traded funds
Key in on volatility for trading opportunities
Capitalize on sideways movements
Trading options is serious business. Trading Options For Dummies gives you the expert help you need to succeed.

George Fontanills is the founder of Optionetics, which provides investment education services and tools for trading in today's markets. Since 1993, Optionetics has provided investment education services and trading tools to more than 250,000 people from over 50 countries. Every day, Optionetics helps traders navigate the markets and chart paths to financial security. In fact, it not only stands by its pledge to provide the highest quality investment education possible, but it also guarantees it. Optionetics high-profit, low-risk, low-stress strategies are based on over dozens of trading techniques perfected by master trader George Fontanills, founder of Optionetics. Avoiding overly theoretical or technically complicated material, Optionetics represents a practical, balanced approach to trading profitably in today's markets. Optionetics diverse range of educational offerings includes seminars, publications, workshops, CDs and DVDs, home-study materials, books, and software. Choose Optionetics for the premier educational resources and tools to help you become the successful trader you've always wanted to be. Visit www.optionetics.com for more information.

Introduction.
Part I: Getting Started.
Chapter 1: Options Trading and Investing.
Chapter 2: Introducing Options.
Chapter 3: Trading Places: Options for Stocks.
Chapter 4: Option Risks and Rewards.
Part II: Evaluating Markets, Sectors, and Strategies.
Chapter 5: Tapping Into the Market’s Mood.
Chapter 6: Targeting Sectors with Technical Analysis.
Chapter 7: Kicking the Wheels of a New Strategy.
Chapter 8: Mapping Out Your Plan of Attack.
Part III: What Every Trader Needs to Know About Options.
Chapter 9: Getting a Handle on Option Styles.
Chapter 10: Guarding Your Assets with Options.
Chapter 11: Limiting Your Downside When Trading the Trend.
Chapter 12: Combining Options to Limit Your Position Risk.
Chapter 13: Benefiting from Exchange-Traded Funds.
Part IV: Advanced Strategies for Option Traders.
Chapter 14: Profiting Without a Market Outlook.
Chapter 15: Keying In on Volatility for Trading Opportunities.
Chapter 16: Capitalizing When Markets Move Sideways.
Part V: The Part of Tens.
Chapter 17: Ten Top Option Strategies.
Chapter 18: Ten Do’s and Don’ts in Options Trading.
Glossary.
Index.