Options traders make money any time the market moves, no matter whether it goes up or down. Now, with this primer created from Natenberg's bestselling video course, Mastering Option Trading Volatility Strategies, it has never been easier for traders to gain a powerful understanding of the potential of volatility trading strategies. Since the inception of options only a few decades ago, many have sought to harness the key element of options trading volatility. No one is more synonymous with volatility trading strategies than Sheldon Natenberg. Renowned for his influence on nearly every option trader through his classic work, Option Volatility and Pricing, this legend in trading success is in great demand for his ability to harness market forces through his calculated approach to trading. Now, in a groundbreaking new approach, Natenberg personally guides you through the key elements of option valuation and volatility trading strategies. Written in an amazingly accessible style, Option Volatility Trading Strategies puts this Traders Hall of Fame Award recipient right next to you as he untangles the complexity of pricing models and trading strategies and puts them in your hands. This guide levels the field for anyone trading options or interested in trading options by showing: · An understandable explanation of the Black-Scholes pricing model · Why theoretical pricing is the most important tool for any option trader · How to understand probability and why it is a key element in valuing options · One of the most simplistic explanations of valuation from the most respected source · How to calculate weekly and monthly volatility and why you need it to make money in options · Easy-to-understand definitions of the four types of volatility: future, historical, forecast, and implied. You will feel like you are next to a trading icon who is breaking down some of the most complex concepts of option trading and giving them to you to make money in your everyday trading. You ll finish this book with those new ideas you so urgently need to best position your portfolio. Better yet, you ll be armed against those common pitfalls in option trading that can hold back your trading momentum and narrow those critic
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Sheldon Natenberg began his trading career in 1982 as an independent market maker in equity options at the Chicago Board Options Exchange. In 1985, he began trading commodity options as an independent floor trader at the Chicago Board of Trade. He is now Director of Education for Chicago Trading Company and is a highly sought lecturer at professional training seminars both here and abroad. Natenberg has helped many of the world s top institutional investors, mutual fund managers, and brokerage analysts better understand volatility and utilize it in valuing and pricing options of all types. He is one of the most sought after speakers on the topic of option trading and volatility strategies.
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31 of 33 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
disappointing, tho quick, humble read,
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This review is from: Option Volatility Trading Strategies, New and Updated Edition (Hardcover)
first off let me say that "option volatility & pricing" is a masterwork - an essential option trader's read.
but natenberg's latest is a very lightweight volume with little insight for most traders. there is some basic discussion of volatility definitions. however there is not really anything resembling a "trading strategy" discussed in the book unless you consider "buy low, sell high" as a strategy. to be fair, n. offers no pretense of uncovering any secret strategy for market success. his goal seems to be imparting an understanding of how volatility is the key concept to grasp for determining option prices. he does a nice job of distinguishing between various perspectives on volatility (historical vs. future vs. forecast vs. implied) but ultimately fails to discuss how any of these variables can be incorporated into a trading framework. at best, the book points readers to look at option prices and values in terms of volatility (again "buy underpriced vol, sell overpriced vol") but leaves it to the reader to make the decision on what is a decent price to pay. this is not much different from saying "your guess is as good as mine." if that's the case (and in many ways i actually believe this to be true), it really makes no difference if you incorporate sophisticated volatility modeling into your trading or just throw darts. no in depth discussion of commonly experienced trading puzzles like skew, surface, anomalies between expiration periods, and so on. just simple, not-at-all-mathmatical, layman's overview of probability and statistics. many on-line discussion groups offer far more in-depth treatment of volatility trading and it's quirks for free. if you understand "option volatility & pricing" no need to supplement your library with this (even though i've just listed my copy for sale).
15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
What a disappointment,
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This review is from: Option Volatility Trading Strategies, New and Updated Edition (Hardcover)
Compared to his first book, this one is a joke and makes you wonder whether Natenberg did write it himself. It was way to basic and brief for a serious vol trader and too involved for a beginner. I went through the book in 30 minutes and was extremely disappointed. The book has less than 100 pages of real content, not to mention large font size and double space. A good chunk was spent on talking about very basic concept of expected value and normal distribution. I hope anyone who is interested in trading option would know such things by heart. And the book ends very abruptly. In short, the technical content of the book is thin, not worth $20.
17 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
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Volatility and Pricing Decoded by the Best,
By Hank Chinanski (Berwyn, IL USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Option Volatility Trading Strategies, New and Updated Edition (Hardcover)
No one has ever questioned that Natenberg literally wrote the book on option volatility and pricing, but I don't think anyone will argue it is not a light read. This new work is immensely more accessible and actually reads light a chat with the author. The professional or highly experienced trader might find it a good refresher at best, but for the newbie or average trader this book is a trove of answers and solid explanations. I haven't tried the tests at the end of the chapters (you can go to Traders' Library to take the online) but it looks like a good idea. The way I see it is this book is like the friend you had who read the instructions for the game Risk so you didn't have to. A great book to have on your shelf.
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