Author Description

Starting Today, You Can Learn How to Trade Options! You asked and I listened! The new 2nd Edition has been completely revised from top to bottom. Included are two new chapters, detailed charts and examples, and even a bonus chapter with my favorite options strategies! If you're reading this right now, you're considering learning about options. What are options? Are they better than stocks? Are they hard to use? In this book, author Tim Morris takes your hand and becomes your mentor, teaching you everything you need to know about options. Here is what's included: Chapter 1: What Are Options - This first chapter provides a broad overview of the option world, easing you into the subject and building on ideas as you progress. Tim goes over what exactly options are, how they work, and the reasons to include them in your portfolio versus stocks alone. This chapter covers all subjects you'll need to know which include calls, puts, strike prices, expiration dates, volatility, Greeks, and more. You'll also learn how to gain access to a free, practice account to trade with virtual money as you familiarize yourself with options. Chapter 2: Basic Option Strategies - In chapter two, Tim dives into how to start using options, going over basic strategies such as buying and selling calls and puts, as well as rolling options. Here you implement the concepts you learned in the first chapter with real option trades. Chapter 3: Advanced Options Strategies - Having a better understanding of how option trades work, you now get into advanced strategies that involve buying/selling two options simultaneously. These strategies, which help you to limit risk versus buying/selling one option alone. Examples include credit-spreads, debit-spreads, strangles, and straddles. Chapter 4: Most Advanced Option Strategies - This fourth chapter goes over the most advanced options strategies you can implement, involving as many as four si