Option Volatility Trading Strategies, New and Updated Edition (Hardcover)

by Sheldon Natenberg (Author)

Options traders make money any time the market moves, no matter whether it goes up or down. Now, with this primer created from Natenberg's bestselling video course, Mastering Option Trading Volatility Strategies, it has never been easier for traders to gain a powerful understanding of the potential of volatility trading strategies. Since the inception of options only a few decades ago, many have sought to harness the key element of options trading volatility. No one is more synonymous with volatility trading strategies than Sheldon Natenberg. Renowned for his influence on nearly every option trader through his classic work, Option Volatility and Pricing, this legend in trading success is in great demand for his ability to harness market forces through his calculated approach to trading. Now, in a groundbreaking new approach, Natenberg personally guides you through the key elements of option valuation and volatility trading strategies. Written in an amazingly accessible style, Option Volatility Trading Strategies puts this Traders Hall of Fame Award recipient right next to you as he untangles the complexity of pricing models and trading strategies and puts them in your hands. This guide levels the field for anyone trading options or interested in trading options by showing: · An understandable explanation of the Black-Scholes pricing model · Why theoretical pricing is the most important tool for any option trader · How to understand probability and why it is a key element in valuing options · One of the most simplistic explanations of valuation from the most respected source · How to calculate weekly and monthly volatility and why you need it to make money in options · Easy-to-understand definitions of the four types of volatility: future, historical, forecast, and implied. You will feel like you are next to a trading icon who is breaking down some of the most complex concepts of option trading and giving them to you to make money in your everyday trading. You ll finish this book with those new ideas you so urgently need to best position your portfolio. Better yet, you ll be armed against those common pitfalls in option trading that can hold back your trading momentum and narrow those critic

About the Author
Sheldon Natenberg began his trading career in 1982 as an independent market maker in equity options at the Chicago Board Options Exchange. In 1985, he began trading commodity options as an independent floor trader at the Chicago Board of Trade. He is now Director of Education for Chicago Trading Company and is a highly sought lecturer at professional training seminars both here and abroad. Natenberg has helped many of the world s top institutional investors, mutual fund managers, and brokerage analysts better understand volatility and utilize it in valuing and pricing options of all types. He is one of the most sought after speakers on the topic of option trading and volatility strategies.