Getting Started in Options (Wiley Audio)

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Summary: Superb content
Review: This is an excellent book for beginners as well as those wanting a comprehensive review of options trading. Do not be swayed by negative comments about the green ink used in the printing. The content of this book overcomes any objection to the color of the ink. In actuality, I found the green ink very easy to read.

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Summary: A Great Book to Read Before You Make Your First Option Trade
Review: I work in the financial services industry and deal with individuals who want to trade begin trading options. While we are required to hand out a OCC disclosure booklet with each option application, I always recommend reading this book in conjunction with the OCC booklet before a person makes the first trade. Its many examples and non "mumbo-jumbo" explaination of basic option trading make it a great way to better understand the risks associated with option trading.

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Summary: The best investment you'll make
Review: "Getting Started in Options" clearly explains what options are and how to use them to your advantage. Either as protection on stock investments or as investments unto themselves. I've been trading stocks for a number of years and learned from this book how I could maximize the returns from my existing stock. I recomend this book to anyone from a serious investor to a novice. As an investment, this book will probably give you the greatest return on your money you will ever make.

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Summary: This book is designed to guide you through the options maze.
Review: Nothing should be too complicated to grasp. This book is designed to help the investor understand options as one of many strategies to augment their portfolio. The jargon unique to options is introduced in context as a topic comes up; the book contain numerous examples; and each strategy is thoroughly explained and illustrated with ample chart and graph usage.

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Summary: Awesome
Review: This book is great for the beginner in Options, because of the repitition and all the examples. This would make a good teaching utensil to use when learning about option basics.

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Summary: Not the best beginner book, but a good reference.
Review: It's quite complete, but there are a few points to consider. He uses British terminology for items like "box" spreads, so you need to compare with books written for the US market. He has a strange graphic that purports to show the profit and loss zones for various strategies, but these are far harder to assimilate (for me, anyway) than George Fontanills' risk/reward graphs. But the book is useful.

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Summary: Good place to start
Review: For those looking to get started in options but knowing very little about them, this is a decent book to begin with. I felt the addition of a few easy-to-read summary charts or tables adding a visual to the differences between calls/puts, sells/buys would have been helpful. But you're eventually hit with enough examples that it's reasonably easy to understand. I would recommend it to learn about options, but not as an options investment book.

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Summary: Easy to understand but next time go easy on the examples
Review: I chose this book out of many choices I had to choose from. It first lays out the very basics and then gives different examples of how the many techniques work. The only problem I had with it is some chapters had too many examples. I think there was 20 very simuliar examples for a basic concept of buying a call. The chapters that showed how to combine techniques of buying both puts and calls were the best. Overall a real good book for a first time option trader.

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Summary: excellent tutorial for investment using options
Review: Options are a very powerful tool in investing. Any stock investor is running half blind if they do not consider using options as part of there investment strategy

This book is a great place to start for anyone who wants to have an understanding of what options are and how they can be used as both speculative and conservative investment tools.

The author provides a very through tutorial on what options are, what they are used for and how you can used them in your investment strategy. Many examples are presented to insure that each topic is fully understood. In fact there are so many examples that you may want to skip one here and there after you already understand the subject described. However, these examples are great in illustrating the various topics presented.

The book will be useful for both beginners and more advanced users who wish to know more about the various techniques used in options trading. Having said that, if you are a very experienced options investor who is looking for complex strategies, you would probably be better of with a more advanced book.

The ideal reader of this book would be a person who has been doing some stock trading and is now ready to move to more complex (and potentially rewarding) options based trading.

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Summary: Trading in the Options Market Realistically
Review: Once again author Michael Thomsett has brought to the new and seasoned investor a concise manual on how to trade options in today's economic market. The examples and accompanying explanations are clear and easy to understand. Unlike other books, his isn't too technical nor full of "pie-in-the-sky" examples. The author provides side-bar definitions on all terms presented in the book. Strategies are laid out with "what-if" scenarios, risks are explained fully and repeated often. The book is a "must read" for new and seasoned investors wanting to get started in the options market. Best of all, it's reasonably priced for such a wealth of information.