This hands-on workbook teaches you the most important trading strategies and how to apply them. You’ll find out how to identify, enter, manage, and exit a trade. The special format makes it easy to learn; illustrations, exercises, ‘what-if’ scenarios, and quizzes have you mastering the material in no time. The butterfly family of option strategies is covered, including: butterflies, iron butterflies, condors, broken-wing butterflies, pterodactyls, and iron pterodactyls. The Greeks–delta, gamma, vega, and theta–are also covered. Understanding the Greeks is essential to deciding how to apply the strategies.Anthony J. Saliba, widely known as a pioneer in the options industry, gives you the benefit of twenty-five years of experience on the trading floor. Joseph C. Coronoa, who has traded equity, equity indexes, fixed income, currency, energy, and commodities, has also delivered courses in advanced options trading and risk analysis to hundreds of traders and trading desks. He brings his experience in presenting complex material to this book, as does Karen E. Johnson who has spent much of the past fifteen years developing curricula and training programs for global financial institutions.
