Put Options How to Use This Powerful Financial Tool for Profit & Protection
by Cohen, JeffreyEdition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2003-08-06
Publisher(s): McGraw-Hill Education
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Summary
How to profit from put options, the straightforward, versatile tool that any investor can use Put Optionsprovides complete information for understanding and using puts, the easy to-use investment designed to help investors lower risk and increase overall returns. Misunderstood by most investors as being far too complex, aggressive, and risky to bother with, puts are actually one of the safest end most versatile risk-hedging instruments available, and suitable for virtually any investor. Put Optionsexplains why and how. Author Jeffrey Cohen outlines a foolproof, back-tested strategy for incorporating put options into any investment portfolio--or even creating a stock-free portfolio. Put Optionsfeatures: 9 put rules for saving both money and frustration Put strategies for profiting in up, down, or sideways markets Tips for using puts to increase trading leverage and success
Author Biography
Jeffrey M. Cohen is founder of SafetyNetTrading.com as well as a hedge fund manager, continuing education instructor, and tax and financial planning expert. A popular speaker, Cohen has appeared on CNBC, CBS MarketWatch, and Lifetime.
Table of Contents
| Foreword | |
| Preface | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| An Overview of the Safetynet Trading System | |
| Understanding Risk: You Can't Avoid What You Don't Understand | p. 19 |
| Using Options to Reduce Risk: Increase Your Odds of Successful Trading | p. 23 |
| Using Someone Else's Money to Insure Your Assets: A Tranquilizer for Your Portfolio | p. 35 |
| Option Trading: A Detailed Tutorial | |
| Understanding Options: They're Simpler Than You Think | p. 47 |
| Implementing the System: The Devil Is in the Details | p. 69 |
| Choosing Your Universe of Stocks: Stick with the Greats | p. 75 |
| Establishing Support Levels: How Low Is Low Enough? | p. 101 |
| Pulling the Trigger: When to Take a Position | p. 109 |
| Insuring against a Market Crash: Protection to Help You Sleep at Night | p. 125 |
| Managing Your Portfolio to Maximize Your Profits | p. 133 |
| Learning from My Costly Mistakes: Eight Rules That Will Save You Money and Frustration | p. 141 |
| About Those Critics: Selling Puts Is Safer Than Buying Stock - Despite What Your Broker Says | p. 147 |
| Choose Your Own Risk Tolerance: More Risk, More Reward - The Choice Is Yours | p. 159 |
| Best Sources for Stock Research: The Internet Can Help You Be a Better Guesser | p. 167 |
| Historical Examples and Current Trading Opportunities | |
| History Doesn't Lie: Indisputable Proof That Investors Can Lower Their Risk | p. 173 |
| Examples from Today's Market: The Truth Never Changes | p. 179 |
| Back Testing the Dow: A 10-Year Back Test on Every Stock in the Dow Jones Industrial Average | p. 217 |
| Afterword | p. 221 |
| Historical Examples | p. 227 |
| Short Option Symbols | p. 229 |
| Nasdaq-100 Index Tracking Stock (QQQ) | p. 233 |
| Currently Available Options | p. 237 |
| Glossary | p. 299 |
| Recommended Reading | p. 303 |
| Index | p. 305 |
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