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Put Options : How to Use This Powerful Financial Tool for Profit & Protection [Hardcover]

Jeffrey Cohen (Author)
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July 16, 2003 007141665X 978-0071416658 1

How to profit from put options, the straightforward, versatile tool that any investor can use

Put Options provides 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 Options explains 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 Options features:

  • 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

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A Revolutionary Program for Dramatically Improving Your Stock Market Performance While Insuring Against Market Freefalls

To increase their overall stock market returns, investors have been told for decades that they must first increase their risks. Problem is, millions of investors who bought into that line of thinking were caught blindside by recent market downturns--without ever knowing there was a better way.

Put Options outlines a better way, one that isn't built on pie-in-the-sky, get-rich-quick premises and promises. It introduces a powerful way to trade and invest that allows you to participate in stock market profits without incurring undue risk. The secret is in using put options, versatile instruments that allow you to increase per-dollar returns while hedging against sudden and devastating market downturns. Let Put Options show you how to:

  • Profit even when you've guessed wrong
  • Weather down markets with your equity virtually intact
  • Invest only in the world's most well-known, successful companies

The potential rewards of owning stock are substantial; so too, as recent markets have proven, are the risks. Let Put Options show you a new way to invest, one that significantly limits your downside risk when compared to stock ownership as it helps you pocket consistent profits in today's challenging financial marketplace.

"I think one of the best gifts any investor could bestow upon his or her financial planner or stockbroker is a copy of this book."--Donald Moine, Ph.D., Financial Planning Columnist, From the Preface

If you are like most investors, you would leap at the opportunity to earn consistent double-digit stock market returns with greatly reduced risk. Put Options introduces you to an innovative, proven program designed to do just that--produce consistent and regular stock market returns while minimizing the risk of losing those returns during a down market.

The secret, in a nutshell, is in implementing a low-maintenance, easy-to-follow program of selling puts on quality stocks while hedging those investments by buying puts on the overall market. Far easier to implement and track than it sounds, this strategy is frequently used by institutional investors, whose reputations and careers depend on garnering decent returns without assuming unnecessary risk. Yet, until now, it was considered too complex and high-level for individual investors and traders.

Put Options explains this proven technique in terms that virtually any investor can understand and implement. The rare investment book that supports its claims by providing the actual results of actual trades using actual household-name stocks, Put Options provides a step-by-step template on how you can use author Jeffrey Cohen's SafetyNet program to consistently:

  • Profit through the use of puts, one of today's most versatile investment tools
  • Lower your all-important break-even points in up, down, and sideways markets
  • Protect yourself--and even take home a profit--when stock prices go down

Financial advisors and stockbrokers will do everything in their power to steer you away from option writing as "too risky." Yet they have no problem recommending high-flying stocks they know little or nothing about, then leaving you to fend for yourself when negative news sends those stocks crashing to the ground...

... And you can't afford that kind of advice.

Put Options will change the way you invest by literally changing the way you view investment. It shows you how to invest in today's best blue-chip stocks in such a way as to profit when they do well while protecting yourself when they do poorly. Packed with facts, figures, and actual examples of SafetyNet in action, it unquestionably supports the bottom-line premise that writing options can, if done correctly, be far safer than owning shares of stock--and then shows you exactly how to do it.

About the Author

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.


Product Details

  • Hardcover: 288 pages
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (July 16, 2003)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 007141665X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0071416658
  • Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.4 x 1.3 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #716,995 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Good Concepts, easy read., August 16, 2005
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TheBookGuy (Goffstown, NH) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Put Options : How to Use This Powerful Financial Tool for Profit & Protection (Hardcover)
I found this to be a very good discussion of a strategy that I was already considering - Selling PUT options. The author makes a compelling argument for this approach and adds some additional twists to the idea that I had not considered. If you have a reasonable amount of capital to start working with, probably 20K+, you could implement this type of strategy with good results. Less capital than that and you will probably start to see the effects of brokerage fees eating up too much of you profits if you try to diversify.

Overall, a very good book - the one downside is that in the book the author keeps mentioning a software program he had written to help you implement the system, but after much searching, including on his website, I was not able to find it. Too bad, it sounded like a very helpful program.
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11 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Not a bad strategy/silly written book, November 14, 2006
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This review is from: Put Options : How to Use This Powerful Financial Tool for Profit & Protection (Hardcover)
One-third of the book is an advertising of a strategy. Or maybe it just sounds like an infomercial?

One-fifth of the book is tables of almost all stocks and almost all options. Why?

And, as mentioned before, where is that tool that helps in calculating the selection parameters? It is actually one of the most ridiculous (and negative)points of the book. Here: "You are probably thinking that you could spend every waking hour doing this analysis. Fortunately, you do not have to. The automated toolkit I developed will allow most investors to properly analyze...portfolio in less than 30 minutes". Right. Good. Where is it?

As I said, the book is on a silly side as it tries to explain the strategy to ones who do not know what an option is.

The strategy and ideas (diversification, unpredictability of stock prices, the notion that the strategy does not guarantee gains all the time, factors to consider, etc.)in this book are not bad.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars PUT OPTIONS - Powerfully Effective, October 9, 2010
This review is from: Put Options : How to Use This Powerful Financial Tool for Profit & Protection (Hardcover)
Mark LaMoure, Boise, ID

Author Jeffery M. Cohen's: 'PUT OPTIONS' is an very good, 4 Gold Star book explaining Put Options for investing. I found out that Put Options are a highly effective investing tool for success, even more than I thought previously. The book shows you how to use Put's for profit and protection. Put's are the opposite of Call Options. Put Options are only used only on a stock's FALLING price line, v.s. Call Options which are always used on a stock's RISING price line. I discovered the author explaining complete, well-written explanations for doing Put Option investing. You'll find PUT OPTIONS to be a top shelf book, offering precious insights for your investing.

That being said, Mr. Cohen writes a golden book with 17 chapters, deeply analyzing the subject of Put Options. I appreciated it when he described their valuable benefits in detail. Jeffery gives you 8 rules that will save you money and help you make valuable profits. Easy to understand, the book gives you top notch answers and important strategies to use. Cohen's book is comprehensive, has 304 pages, 4 Appendix's, Copyright 2003.

Conclusion: PUT OPTIONS will ignite a new fire in your purpose to invest. I appreciated that Jeffery Cohen gives you a one-of-a-kind text, teaching how to use Put Options for your best benefit. This book merits your attention. Recommendation: Buy it, because its one of the finest books I've ever seen written in 12 years on the subject of Put Option investing. The book is for serious option traders who want to make bigger money.
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