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Summary: Complete waste of money
Review: Trivial substance, naive and useless examples.
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Summary: A Good "User Friendly" Introduction to Options
Review: This book is a good introduction to trading options directed primarily toward the novice trader. Starting with basic definitions, Mr. Thomsett takes his reader step by step through the benefits, drawbacks and risks of trading options. In easy to understand language, many practical examples and numerous simple graphics, Mr. Thomsett allows his reader to grasp the basic principles of a subject which is frought with many complexities and potential pitfalls. Anyone interested in a good introduction to trading options will find this book a real gem.
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Summary: Somewhat helpful
Review: This book is somewhat useful in terms of getting the basic strategies and terms of options trading down. But the author spends too much time detailing the obvious.
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Summary: Good book
Review: Very good introduction book for option trading. Author provided many easy to understand examples. I took a class for option trading before, all basic strategies can be found in this book.
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Summary: Great for Investing Rookies and Good for Pros too.
Review: If you don't know stock options from a hole in the ground, you'll hit pay dirt with "Getting Started in Options." Thomsett breaks down the complex terms and leaves you with a good understanding of just what stock options are, how they work, and how you can use them to your advantage in investing. You'll never have trouble understanding what Thomsett is saying because for every concept, two or three easy to follow examples are provided helping you to easily understand the lessons. Getting Started starts out by explaining just what stock options are in layman's terms. Next it presents how they work and how you can purchase and sell these options. Then later in the book, advanced strategies are presented. If your a greenhorn when it comes to investing get started on the right foot with getting started. Or if your a seasoned investment pro, consider Getting Started for its overview on more complex option strategies. Want to invest in options or just protect your current stock options? This book is for you.
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Summary: It does help to get started
Review: With 10 years in trading stocks (10-15 transactions a year) I've never looked at options. So, this book was the first one I began to read on the subject. Now I have a chance to compare it with some other books. My impression is that it was written for people like myself. It talks about all typical problems of unprofessional traders, my problems. It does not go for the most complicated techniques, but it covers enough to get started. I have 25 years of teaching experience. From that standpoint I can tell that the author is real good in making complicated things simple. I enjoyed the language of the book - simple and artististic at the same time.
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Summary: Terrible Book
Review: Good for someone who wants start out thinking that the options market is 1)Easy and 2)Highly Inefficient 3)Wants to lose all of their money. The examples are often wrong / confusing / or just lack information. Please don't waste your time on this book...
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Summary: Basic but very unrealistic
Review: Well, the one good aspect of this book is that it is simple. It gives the reader a basic understanding of the basic concepts and terminolagy of options. The bad aspect of this book is that it isn't realistic. The examples that it gives would be impossible to apply in real world situations. The book depicts an options market that is very very inefficient. Once I took a few minutes to examin real-world options on equities I quickly found that most of the examples given in the book were impossible to trade. Who should read this: anyone who wants an easy to follow general understanding of the options market and plans to 1)Never trade the options market, or 2)Plans on finding another book that explains strategies and realistic market conditions.
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Summary: Excellent Introduction
Review: I like this book. It is accessible and well written. All the relevant details are here. I only wish the publisher assumed more type setting expenses and gave us some more color for the interior of the book. All text, graphics, tables, and sidebars are in green. I do not trade options anymore, because I think such things are best left to professionals. And timing the market is like playing with a financial time bomb: one wrong move and a substantial portion of your investment disappears. But for those who need to learn about options, this is an excellent start.
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Summary: You can probably find a better introduction to options
Review: I bought this book because I had read a ton of praise about it in various investing forums on the Net. However, after reading it, I must say that I am a bit disappointed. You will certainly learn the basics about options if you read the book. However, I think the book could have been better in some ways. First of all, a better job could have been done in the proofreading process. For example, there are several instances in the book where the author refers to a "call" option when he is really referring to a "put" option. If you know anything about options, you should know that a call option is the opposite of a put option. Those are potentially huge mistakes that the author makes, because if you don't catch them, then you'll end up being seriously confused. Second of all, the examples can be confusing. I thought that the author had left out certain critical pieces of information in several examples. However, after continuing my reading, I realized that those pieces of information actually weren't necessary. It took me a while to figure that out, because I didn't know too much about options at the time. Given that the book is for people who are beginners at options, I think the author should have explained in each example why he left out certain bits of information. Finally, the book goes into various options strategies, but I was disappointed that it didn't talk about the "collar" strategy. This is a very simple strategy that fully protects your investment if it goes south, and it ensures a maximum profit if it goes up (for no additional cost if you play it right). It's a strategy that's easy to understand, so I don't know why the book doesn't mention it. So, this book is okay, but I'm sure you could find better resources on the Net, or a better book on options.
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