The complete book of option spreads and combinations : strategies for income generation, directional moves, and risk reduction

The Complete Book of Option Spreads and Combinations will be the definitive educational resource and reference guide for using option spreads and other sophisticated option strategies. Option spread trading has grown rapidly in recent years due to the reduction in brokerage commissions and ease of execution through electronic platforms. Author Scott Nations will cover vertical spreads, calendar spreads, ratio spreads, diagonal spreads, butterflys, iron butterflys, straddles, strangles, condors, and iron condors. Nations will describe the inner workings of each strategy, describing how the strategies are impacted by movements in the underlying market, implied volatility, and time decay. Most importantly, he identifies market conditions where each strategy performs well and market conditions where each strategy should be avoided. Readers will learn: n How to generate monthly income by selling covered stranglesn Using call spreads to recover from a losing stock positionn Using put diagonals to protect an existing stock positionn The best strategies for directional market plays Once the proper strategy is suggested, Nations shows how to identify the best options to use based on "moneyness" (in-the-money, out-of-the-money or at-the-money) and time to expiration. He then describes how to monitor, adjust, and close each trade to maximize profits and minimize losses. Comprehensive and authoritative, The Complete Book of Option Spreads and Combinations will provide traders with a valuable how-to manual and a lasting reference.