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Summary: good book on the options markets
Review: The book has great chapters on the future of the markets and technology. Also great explanation of what it takes to trade options successfully.I thought the book was lacking in actual trading techniques and indicaters other than a basic overview of spreads.
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Summary: Save Your Time and Pass On This One.
Review: There are 2 real option books: 1) Options: Perception Deception and 2) Option Volatility & Pricing by Natenberg. Maybe there are a few others; but the 50 I've read have been useless."How I Trade Options" I would re-title as "Why I Am Fabulous and A Couple Option Stories" There is not one method in this book that will put option profits in your pocket. An example of his trading: Way back when Yahoo was going up $20 each day for weeks, he finally saw this pattern and bought some shares and sold within minutes for a $2 profit. Can anyone tell me how that adds to my options or trading knowledge? I know people that made a fortune on those Yahoo runups - and they weren't professional traders; and all Dr. J got was $2. Buy the real options books I mentioned and leave this celebrity puffery for Dr. J's personal library.
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Summary: The Best Book on Options I Have Ever Read
Review: This book is great. I've read a bunch of books on options (I've been trading them for five years), and this is by far the best. It's readable, but also very intelligent. It is full of clear, concise examples of trading stategies, and how they work in the real world. Also, I like the explanations of how the Chicago trading pits actually work. Many books on options are on the extremes: either too technical, or else they belabor the obvious -- both of which are not useful. This one is different, and it's about time. I'll be reading and re-reading this one for a long time. Thanks to Mr. Najarian for this book.
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Summary: Love me please .... honestly I am great
Review: This book was a disappointment. Talk about an ego. All full of himself when he carried the water bucket for the Chicago Bears. Seriously, there is no useful information in this book about option trading. There is no strategy that you can apply. I would give my book to charity but whats the point. I see Mr. Najarian in Chicago trying to look like Steven Seagal with the pony tail. Pass on this book. Stick with Mcmillan or Fontanills. Even Schaeffer hits the mark compare with Jon Najarian. PS Why the "dr" label either trying to copy his successful father or imply he is qualified. Well not qualified in options books
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Summary: TO "A READER FROM INDIANA"
Review: This is exactly why this man has made this book. Only people who don't understand how to trade options correctly would give a review like that. I have had the oppertunity to work with Dr. J and learn the real way to trade options and if anyone reads the book you don't buy options, OR stocks in that matter, last minute, you buy them for 3 to 6 months. I believe this book doesn't tell you all there is to tell, it wasn't written that way. It is to show you how he makes his money. People like that guy from Indiana makes me glad I make money off him. BOOK IS GREAT!
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Summary: A Complete Insight Into How I Trade Options
Review: Trade with the best. There are few better or faster ways to learn how to trade effectively than to seek out top traders and learn from them. An options pro for 20 years, Jon Najarian is quite simply one of the world's best options traders. It is not just his storied career at the world's premier options exchange, extensive experience trading on and off the floor, gold-plate credentials or nationwide educational presentations that make him such a credible and effective teacher. Najarian possesses the genuine gift of clear communication: the ability to convey at times complex ideas in comprehensible, readily accessible, and memorable language. Importantly, clear communication is one of the hallmarks of "Dr. J's" How I Trade Options, part of John Wiley & Sons publication's "Online Trading For A Living" book series. Jon has given me a personalized tour of the Chicago Board Options Exchange and I was present at his seminar at TradingMarkets2000 at the Venetian, so I am familiar with his communication style. Throughout the read, I felt like Jon was talking to me, articulating the basics, anticipating my questions, making a subject that can be perplexing, eye-opening, and even fun. I don't trade options--yet--but this book had the mysterious quality of making me feel ready to do so. Mysterious because it sublimely entered my consciousness, unwittingly rendering me suddenly capable of understanding when and why to employ an Iron Butterfly strategy. Or why never to sell straddles. Or when and why bull call spreads--and bear put spreads--make sense (they get 90% of the profit potential of a naked call or put for half the investment and at only a fraction of the downside risk due to volatility and time decay). Prior to reading this book, questions loomed about options trading--How I Trade Options answered many of them. How I Trade Options also provides a personal account of Dr. J's life (the initials on his trading badge were chosen in deference to his famous surgeon father, known by the same acronym). From his high school days with (the artist formerly known as) Prince, to Berkeley, to the Chicago Bears, to the big leagues of trading, to inventor, to his role as one of the de facto trading ambassadors at the CBOE, Jon shares with you an overview of his storied life. There is something here for longer-term investors as well as traders with shorter time frames, as he shows you readily comprehendible strategies used by institutions on how to add value to existing portfolios, how to take out the equivalent of an insurance policy on your stocks, and how to "repair" or take steps to "make whole" a portfolio ravaged by an untoward move--remember 2000, the Nasdaq's worst year on record? Also of interest to longer-term stake holders are strategies involving LEAPS, long-term options. Other things you'll learn from one of the best minds in the industry: --The difference between American and European style options.
--What it takes to succeed in trading.
--Low-cost ways to speculate and take advantage of leverage.
--When to do what, and more importantly, why.
--How to play the broad market.
--How to play from the short side.
--How to get the right tools--quotes, software, brokers, and continuing education.
--Myriad details on the inner workings of stock, options, and the players that will enhance your overall comprehension of the broad market. Barring personalized instruction and perhaps a personalized tour of the CBOE by one of its biggest players, this may be the next best thing.
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Summary: Nothing new to offer
Review: Very disappointing book. He talks the talk but can't walk the walk of communicating his ideas into print. After reading some of the great books on the subject MacMillan, Natenburg and Fontanills this book had really nothing to offer. The book drifts without going anywhere. It is more of a self fulfilling how great I am book rather than offering anything to the student of trading. Although he trades on the floor he does not translate that into how the off floor trader gets the edge. I appears Mr. Najarian is more interested in becoming a "personality" than providing any useful insight into how to trade options. I intend to return my book to Amazon it is of no use to me.
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Summary: The amazing evolution of DRJ
Review: Why is it that some people feel the need to be famous at any cost? Anyone who has followed the "exploits" of DRJ has watched his football career grow and grow over time. In four or five more books he'll be in Canton. He is a DPM in a number of stocks, he was on the board of directors of the CBOE, but check the Chicago Tribune for the circumstances around his exit from that post. Check the Chicago Sun-Times for their take on his "inside information" when he tipped the world to a public meeting of the NYSE and CBOE through 1010wallstreet.com. Better to leave the technical writing to writers, he should stick to fiction, like his resume.
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