Option Spreads Made Easy Course Book with DVD (Trade Secrets Course Books) [Paperback]

George Fontanills (Author)

Book Description

Series: Trade Secrets Course Books | Publication Date: December 28, 2007

George Fontanills, popular author of Trade Options Online and The Options Course and founder of Optionetics.com, hands you his proven techniques for profiting with option spreads. Included in this course book is a vivid 90-minute DVD and online access to charts and self exams to ensure that you digest all aspects of his winning techniques. Fontanills shows you how you can use option spreads to expand your profit opportunities while managing your risk. With this ground-breaking DVD and book combination, you can pour over every word of Fontanills presentation learning each important point in a step-by-step, layer-by-layer process. Fontanills begins with a discussion on equity options and basic bull call spreads and continues with lessons on how to structure debit and credit spreads, what market conditions are most profitable, and how to achieve your trading goals by adjusting strike-price levels. Making spreading strategies understandable and easy to implement, Fontanills work also includes: Why the lowest-priced option isn t always the cheapest How in-the-money spreads can be safer, even if they cost more The Sketch-pad method of risk analysis - drawing a picture of your trade probabilities Making time-value decay your ally, instead of your enemy Understanding how volatility patterns impact your trading selection Using Fontanills engaging course book, you will be able to fully grasp how to reduce your risk and to start profiting with option spreads right away.

Product Details

• Paperback: 176 pages
• Publisher: Marketplace Books; Pap/DVD edition (December 28, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1592802672
• ISBN-13: 978-1592802678
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.1 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #590,459 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1.0 out of 5 stars Avoid!! Its way cheaper to buy news papers if you need to burn something, April 9, 2011

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Wow! This book is just like a high volatility option; full of hot air!
The title says "Options Spreads Made Easy" well, they were not kidding, this is more like "Spreads for the Brain Dead" Here is why; First, if I buy a book about a specific subject, I expect it to be well, somewhat specific maybe? I wanted at least some pointers on how to think spreads, tips on entering and exiting positions, how to fix a spread gone wrong, how to best pick the strike spread, or how much in or out of the money.

Well if your expectations are like mine, look somewhere else. I will show you where to find the "Juicy" content in this book:

Pages 1 - 52: Very general options theory. This is all over the web.
Pages 53 - 65: Ridiculously simple. You read about Bull Call, Bear Call, Bull Put, Bear Put, Ratios, Short/Long Straddles, Short/Long Strangles, Calendars. All of them in twelve pages!!!! It gets worse...
Pages 85 - 107: Chapter titled "Spreads For Different Markets" This is where the really deep stuff is. Get this, thirty (as in 30) spread and non-spread strategies are covered in 22 pages. Are you kidding me? That's a whopping 0.73 strategies per page.
Appendix B: The Black-Scholes Formula which, since we use it every day, I must tattoo on the palm of my hand.
Pages 141 - 165+ Glossary, Index and adds too.

The DVD has some sample of risk/reward charts and general talk, nothing juicy here. Again all this is already out there for free.

Avoid!! Its way cheaper to buy news papers if you need to burn something.