Options Volatility Trading: Strategies for Profiting from Market Swings

How to collect big profits from a volatile options market

Over the past decade, the concept of volatility has drawn attention from traders in all markets across the globe. Unfortunately, this scrutiny has also created a proliferation of myths about what volatility means and how it works.

Options Volatility Trading deconstructs some of the common misunderstandings about volatility trading and shows you how to successfully manage an options trading account and investment portfolio with expertise. This reliable guidebook provides an in-depth look at the volatility index (VIX) and demonstrates how to use it in conjunction with other analytical tools to determine an accurate measure of investor sentiment. However, recognizing a trend isn’t enough. In order to give you everything you need to profit in the options market, Options Volatility Trading also features:

  • Detailed analysis of historical volatility patterns in the context of trading activity
  • Insights into the behavioral psychology of trading volatility
  • Revealing examinations of market noise that distorts exploitable anomalies

Author Adam Warner, a recognized trading strategist and financial writer, sheds light on the required mathematics by thoroughly covering options Greeks and building a solid foundation for more advanced options and volatility concepts. He explains how to diversify your investment choices using the latest trading vehicles on the market, including exchange traded funds (ETFs), which offer exceptional money-earning potential for volatility traders.

Applying the conceptual lessons in this in-depth book, you will be able to identify, collect, and process the abundance of data available every day in order to time the markets like a pro, as well as develop your own toolbox of best practices and time-tested strategies for locking in big profits from dramatic shifts in investor sentiment. Most importantly, Options Volatility Trading provides you with a go-to resource of dependable guidelines that will help you become a successful volatility trader in options and any other market.

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Options Volatility Trading: Strategies for Profiting from Market Swings

How to collect big profits from a volatile options market

Over the past decade, the concept of volatility has drawn attention from traders in all markets across the globe. Unfortunately, this scrutiny has also created a proliferation of myths about what volatility means and how it works.

Options Volatility Trading deconstructs some of the common misunderstandings about volatility trading and shows you how to successfully manage an options trading account and investment portfolio with expertise. This reliable guidebook provides an in-depth look at the volatility index (VIX) and demonstrates how to use it in conjunction with other analytical tools to determine an accurate measure of investor sentiment. However, recognizing a trend isn’t enough. In order to give you everything you need to profit in the options market, Options Volatility Trading also features:

  • Detailed analysis of historical volatility patterns in the context of trading activity
  • Insights into the behavioral psychology of trading volatility
  • Revealing examinations of market noise that distorts exploitable anomalies

Author Adam Warner, a recognized trading strategist and financial writer, sheds light on the required mathematics by thoroughly covering options Greeks and building a solid foundation for more advanced options and volatility concepts. He explains how to diversify your investment choices using the latest trading vehicles on the market, including exchange traded funds (ETFs), which offer exceptional money-earning potential for volatility traders.

Applying the conceptual lessons in this in-depth book, you will be able to identify, collect, and process the abundance of data available every day in order to time the markets like a pro, as well as develop your own toolbox of best practices and time-tested strategies for locking in big profits from dramatic shifts in investor sentiment. Most importantly, Options Volatility Trading provides you with a go-to resource of dependable guidelines that will help you become a successful volatility trader in options and any other market.

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Options Volatility Trading: Strategies for Profiting from Market Swings

Options Volatility Trading: Strategies for Profiting from Market Swings

by Adam Warner
Options Volatility Trading: Strategies for Profiting from Market Swings

Options Volatility Trading: Strategies for Profiting from Market Swings

by Adam Warner

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How to collect big profits from a volatile options market

Over the past decade, the concept of volatility has drawn attention from traders in all markets across the globe. Unfortunately, this scrutiny has also created a proliferation of myths about what volatility means and how it works.

Options Volatility Trading deconstructs some of the common misunderstandings about volatility trading and shows you how to successfully manage an options trading account and investment portfolio with expertise. This reliable guidebook provides an in-depth look at the volatility index (VIX) and demonstrates how to use it in conjunction with other analytical tools to determine an accurate measure of investor sentiment. However, recognizing a trend isn’t enough. In order to give you everything you need to profit in the options market, Options Volatility Trading also features:

  • Detailed analysis of historical volatility patterns in the context of trading activity
  • Insights into the behavioral psychology of trading volatility
  • Revealing examinations of market noise that distorts exploitable anomalies

Author Adam Warner, a recognized trading strategist and financial writer, sheds light on the required mathematics by thoroughly covering options Greeks and building a solid foundation for more advanced options and volatility concepts. He explains how to diversify your investment choices using the latest trading vehicles on the market, including exchange traded funds (ETFs), which offer exceptional money-earning potential for volatility traders.

Applying the conceptual lessons in this in-depth book, you will be able to identify, collect, and process the abundance of data available every day in order to time the markets like a pro, as well as develop your own toolbox of best practices and time-tested strategies for locking in big profits from dramatic shifts in investor sentiment. Most importantly, Options Volatility Trading provides you with a go-to resource of dependable guidelines that will help you become a successful volatility trader in options and any other market.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780071629652
Publisher: McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date: 09/22/2009
Pages: 304
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Adam Warner is the founder of the “DailyOptions Report” and a faculty member ofthe popular trading website, Minyanville.com. His writings have appeared on a numberof sites, including Tradingmarkets.com,Stocktwits.com, and Wallstrip.com. Warnerhas traded options professionally for over 20years. He lives in suburban New Jersey.

Table of Contents

1. VIX and the Art of Position Maintenance
2. And So, My Friends, I Bequeath Unto You, an Index that Will Quantify this Thing You Refer to as Volatility
3. Big Vixin': Can You Compare Volatility Across Eras?
4. Behind the VIX Curtain: How Do Actual Traders Analyze Volatility?
5. Like the Weather: The Trading VIX and Why It Doesn't Work Like You Think
6. Up In Smoke? Can Buying High and Selling Low in Volatility Actually Be a Great Idea?
7. Smile Like You Mean It
8. Time On My Side
9. Ultra Shares: Double Your Way Down to Zero
10. Guilt by Coincidental Association: The Plus Tick Rule
11. Ratio Ratio
12. Conclusion
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