Options Made Easy

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Summary: Easier yes. Easy ... no.
Review: Guy Cohen has done a remarkable job making the world of options more reasonable for the begining investor (such as myself), however I consider myself reasonably intelligent and I struggled with some of the risk profiles. After I gained an understanding of what the author was explaining I felt that some aspects of the book could have been explained more completely.(An example would be explaining that the break even mark on the risk profile was calculated using only the time value of the option and not the intrinsic value and this only applies if the option is sold at expiration.)

Overall I feel that this book is the best content value I have found on the subject and I highly recomend it for beginning traders who may find it difficult to shell out some of the big ticket prices charged by people teaching this subject.

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Summary: The options equivalent of 'Trading for a Living'
Review: Guy Cohen has made options as accessible as Alex Elder made stocks and commodities. 'Options made Easy' gives a clear, substantially pictorial perspective on this unnecessarily complex world. For all options students this book will function both as a quick reference and a venerated mentor. It is the ideal companion both for the beginner and the experienced trader who seeks clarity and an incisive view of options strategies. An excellent read that will make you money!

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Summary: The Definitive Options Book
Review: Having decided to trade options I read every book available on the subject and viewed a number of videos. When I finally caught up with Guy Cohen's's book I thought I do not need another book on this subject, wrong. I quickly realised that the title "options made Easy" was correct it was by far the easiest book to understand the different strategies available with the potential risks & rewards of each trade, His trading symbols are unique.

When I sent a query to Guy's website I was astonished to get an answer in hours, very impressive.

If you want a thorough grounding in options in an easy to understand format I thoroughly recommend this book

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Summary: As the title says! - & excellent non-option context chapters
Review: Having read a large number of stocks and trading psychology books and trading stocks/CFDs and moving on to Options I bought and read this and Michael Thomsetts 'Getting started in Options' book. Choose this one. Its an easy read style, clear text and graphs and makes it all understandable. As a bonus, the best thing is for new traders are the excellent chapters on Psychology and Technical Analysis which could stand alone as mini-guide on these subjects.(Intermediate/advanced traders could skip them but they are a useful reminder). There are a couple of references to his software but that is fine (in fact while this is a book review I have also benefitted from his course and using the software). At the end is also a good 'Putting it all together' section to actually DO the option trading as well as a useful strategy summary. I am now successfully trading options, initiated to a large to degree by this book.

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Summary: Best book to start in options trading!
Review: I read dozens books about options. I only came across four, which have a real practical value about real options trading. This one - "Options made easy" - the first one. It's a very good introduction to option theory and practical approach of trading. Three others - "Options Workbook" by Tony Saliba, "Volatility" by Natenberg and "Options: Perceptions and Deceptions" by Cottle. All other books so far - theoretical garbage by people who want to make money by only selling books and useless services, but not trading options!

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Summary: The best book about options!
Review: This is the best book I've read about options. It explains an EASY way to understanding the concepts of options, strategies, technical analysis and trading psychology, as the title says. It also explains the particular risk profile charts for every options strategy the book teaches. It guides you on about what criteria to use when screening stocks for particular options strategies. The technical analysis section offers an in depth and EASY way to spot chart patterns and gives you information on other indicators to monitor that can confirm the patterns. Everything in the book is explained clearly and understandably and at the end of each chapter there is a summary. Most importantly it talks about the investor psychology, which I think is the most important part of the equation. The best knowledge won't help if you don't have the right mind setting. Buy this book first, and then buy the other books you are considering about options.