This is an easy-to-read and updated guide to the complex world of options investing. Investing in options sounds so risky that many people fail to capitalize on this potentially lucrative opportunity. In non-technical, easy-to-follow terms, Getting Started in Options, Seventh Edition thoroughly demystifies the options markets, distinguishes the imagined risks from the real ones, and arms investors with the facts they need to make informed decisions. This editions will include new examples, updated charts, and timely additions that reflect important changes in the markets.
Book Details:
- Author: Michael C. Thomsett
- ISBN: 9780470175453
- Year Published: 2007
- Pages: 256
- BISAC: BUS036040, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS/Investments & Securities / Options
About the Book and Topic:
This is an easy-to-read and updated guide to the complex world of options investing. Investing in options sounds so risky that many people fail to capitalize on this potentially lucrative opportunity. In non-technical, easy-to-follow terms, Getting Started in Options, Seventh Edition thoroughly demystifies the options markets, distinguishes the imagined risks from the real ones, and arms investors with the facts they need to make informed decisions. This editions will include new examples, updated charts, and timely additions that reflect important changes in the markets.
A completely revised and updated edition of this popular and easy-to-use guide to understanding and using options. New material in this edition will include new markets and options concepts, expanded strategic uses of options, and new and important aspects that have grown from previous editions.
NEW MATERIAL: New material will include a discussion of how to calculate options returns, test run activities to try out the theories, and more. This edition will also contain new examples, updated charts, and timely additions to reflect important changes in the markets. POPULAR TITLE: This is a popular and accessible introduction to using options, which sold over 100,000 copies in its third edition, 23,000 in its fourth, 17,600 in its fifth, and 16,600 in its sixth. Between the current six editions, GSI Options has sold over 195,000 copies. FURTHER ADDITION TO POPULAR “GSI” SERIES: The Getting Started In series format includes sidebar definitions and easy-to-follow examples that anyone can understand, making usually complex subject matter easy to understand for any level investor.
About the Author
MICHAEL C. THOMSETT (Pt. Townsend, WA) is a financial writer with over fifty books and hundreds of articles to his credit, including the bestselling Getting Started in Bonds (Wiley) and the six previous editions of Getting Started in Options, which has more than 195,000 copies in print. He has been a management consultant in the securities industries and is an active options trader.