10/13/2010

Options Trading for the Conservative Investor: Increasing Profits without Increasing Your Risk, 2nd Edition - pdf

Options Trading for the Conservative Investor: Increasing Profits without Increasing Your Risk, 2nd EditionBook Description
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Use Options to Protect Capital, Limit Risk, and Improve Your Returns in Any Market

  • New downside protection strategies, detailed examples, and step-by-step techniques for conservative investors
  • Easy enough for virtually any experienced investor to use–even those without options experience
  • By renowned options expert Michael C. Thomsett, author of the global best-seller Getting Started in Options

To protect yourself in today's volatile and uncertain market environment, you need to hedge losses, create extra sources of income, and reduce risk. In this book, internationally renowned options expert Michael C. Thomsett shows how to do all that effectively. One step at a time, Thomsett helps you exploit 12 carefully chosen options strategies that can dramatically increase your overall returns as you manage risks within your personal limits. If you ever thought that options were only for speculators, think again: These powerful strategies are designed specifically for cautious investors. This edition is packed with new examples from today's markets–and new techniques for coming through market down cycles intact. If you want to preserve capital, protect paper profits, and avoid unacceptable risk, you need this book–and you need it now.

About the Author
Michael C. Thomsett has written over sixty books on investment and financial topics, including Stock Profits: Getting to the Core (Financial Times-Prentice Hall 2004) as well as the best-selling Getting Started in Options (now in its Sixth Edition, with over 200,000 sold, John Wiley & Sons 2005) and The Leaps Strategist (Marketplace Books 2004). His Investment and Securities Dictionary (McFarland & Company 1986) was named Outstanding Academic Book by Choice Magazine.

Thomsett lives in Port Townsend, Washington.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 272 pages
  • Publisher: FT Press; 2 edition (March 15, 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0-13-704200-0
  • ISBN-13: 978-0-13-704200-5
  • File Size: 1.5 MiB
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