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Options for the Stock Investor: How to Use Options to Enhance and Protect Returns

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I recently added "Options for the Stock Investor" to my financial trading and investment library, hoping it would keep its promise describing it as logically written in a systematic and straightforward manner. I'm pleased to say it HASN'T DISAPPOINTED.

Unfortunately, this book hasn't received the attention it deserves among the many books devoted primarily to intermediate options traders/investors. I've always felt that options were explained in a much too "matter of fact" manner, where the most practical information is inadvertently ignored, obscured or non-existent.

Anyone trying to learn stock options is arguably bombarded by fearful information and disorganized, incomplete explanations. This short but concentrated book cuts through the many counterintuitive aspects and implicit contradictions involving stock options.

Beginners need only go to the Investopedia and similar sites on the internet to reinforce the Introduction and supplement their exposure to the language of options.

I've seen some of the worst. This book ranks highly among the best.

In the past I had lost money virtually every time I ventured into the option's market. Thanks to this book I now understand what I had been doing wrong. It completely opened my eyes. I now understand how the market works. More importantly, I now know how to use options to my advantage. I still don't score a hit every time, but since reading the book I have realized a substantial net profit.

This book is a good place for a beginner to start. I have just started the book, however, like the fact the author is teaching new information with clear facts and examples.

This book was recommended by an old-timer at Schwab. Worth the price but gives a false impression of how options actually work. Prevailing prices make most spreads, "stock price recovery" schemes worthless. I'm a Newbie, so use Salt.