Option Volatility & Pricing Workbook: Practicing Advanced Trading Strategies and Techniques

by Sheldon Natenberg

Overview

Raise your options investing game to a new level through smart, focused practice


For decades, Sheldon Natenberg’s Option Volatility & Pricing has been helping investors better understand the complexities of the option market with his clear and comprehensive explanation of trading strategies and risk management.


Now, you can raise your performance to a higher level by practicing Natenberg’s methods before you enter the market.


Filled with hands-on exercises designed to dramatically increase your knowledge and build your confidence, The Option Volatility and Pricing Workbook provides the necessary tools from which to build a successful options portfolio. Each exercise is preceded by clear description of the principle at hand, and each concludes with in-depth explanations of the correct answers. Hundreds of exercises cover such topics as:


•Contract Settlement and Cash Flow
•Expiration Profit & Loss
•Theoretical Pricing
•Volatility
•Dynamics of Risk
•Synthetic Pricing and Arbitrage
•Hedging Strategies
•Models and the Real World


Success in option markets requires the ability to adapt to constantly changing market conditions. This ability can only be achieved through a full and intimate understanding of the principles of option evaluation, strategy selection, risk management, and market dynamics.


Whether you’re a professional or novice trader, a market maker or training manager—The Option Volatility and Pricing Workbook is an invaluable tool for achieving success in this famously tough market.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781260116939
Publisher:	McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date:	12/12/2017
Edition description:	Workbook
Pages:	352
Sales rank:	513,377
Product dimensions:	7.40(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Sheldon Natenberg has been working in options for more than three decades, initially as an independent floor trader at the Chicago Board Options Exchange and the Chicago Board of Trade, and later as an educator, conducting seminars for option traders at major exchanges and professional trading firms in the United States, Europe, and the Far East.

Table of Contents

Introduction

1: Contact Settlement and Cash Flow

2: Forward Pricing

3: Contract Specifications and Terminology

4: Expiration Profit and Loss

5: Theoretical Evaluation

6: Volatility

7: Risk Measurement

8: Delta Neutral Positions and Dynamic Hedging

9: The Dynamics of Risk

10: Spreading Strategies

11: Synthetic Equivalents

12: Synthetic Pricing and Arbitrage

13: Early Exercise of American Options

14: The Black-Scholes Model

15: Binomial Pricing

16: Hedging Strategies

17: Models and the Real World

18: Skewness and Kurtosis

19: Stock Indexes

20: Risk Analysis

Appendix: Useful Formulas and Relationships

Answer Key