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Writing Futures Options Strategies:
This book is focused on selling options on futures. It is an excellent dissertation on risk control and profit expectancy, and is loaded with practical advice. This book assumes you have a basic idea of what a future's contract is. I recommend this book highly for anyone who wants practical advice and strategies for gaining a statistical edge in the marketplace which options afford.
Useless book...I guess I'm in the minority here:
Well, 5 of the 6 reviews prior to mine are all very favorable. Those favorable reviews are what persuaded me to buy the book. For me, the book was absolutely useless. The author takes forever to make his point and usually it's not a very useful point when it's made. The titles of each chapter and subchapter are also useless. Rather than just saying what each chapter is devoted to, he incorporates a phrase which the author apparently finds catchy. Finally, and I know some of you will find this unacceptable, I was not even able to finish the book. Mind you, I have been a very hard core student of the market for well over a year and have read many books, in addition to trading, practice trading, and attending seminars, but I eventually gave up about 2/3 of the way through when I realized (after about 2 months of trying to force myself through the book) that I was wasting my time, which is a greater annoyance than the money wasted on buying the book. Others' opinions obviously differ from mine, but for me, this book was extremely annoying in its presentation, contained very very little on how to actually trade any given strategy (or how to defend it), and, as the other unfavorable reviewer noted, is about 90% trading psychology and 10% how-to. THE BOTTOM LINE IS THIS: knowing what I know now, if I could go back in time, would I have purchased this book? NO. Because this stuff is my life, feel free to email me any questions at headbanger51 at yahoo -- be sure to put something like "Amazon review" or "options book" in your subject line or it will probably get deleted.
Great book if you have a brain. Sorry Fletch.:
Outstanding book. I have corresponded with Stuart on a few occasions, and have found him to be a very genuine and intelligent guy. I personally enjoyed his writing style, and appreciate the fact that he didn't rub his advanced degrees in the reader's face. Very down-to-earth guy. I guess some readers such as Fletch prefer dry academic tomes instead of well written edutainment, so hey whatever cranks your tractor I guess. If I ever have insomnia I'll borrow one from you Fletch. Me on the other hand, I appreciate the way the concepts were presented. It made the book even more understandable, if for no other reason that his logical, humorous and chatty style kept my short attention span brain fully engaged. Hats off to SAJ for this excellent book. My options understanding has increased by AT LEAST an order of magnitude.
trading options to win:
gives real trades, real numbers. this is a genuine how to book.
A must read for novice/advanced options traders...:
Stu's writing style and exceptional wisdom when it comes to the futures options markets is unparalleled. Funny, witty, and filled with gobs of invaluable information, I keep this book on my trading desk at all times.
| Author: | S. A. Johnston | | Binding: | Kindle Edition | | Dewey Decimal Number: | 332.645 | | Format: | Kindle Book | | Number Of Pages: | 306 | | Publication Date: | 2003-06-12 |
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