Commodity Futures and Options : A Step-by-Step Guide to Successful Trading

ISBN 13:
9780273650331
ISBN 10:
0273650335
Edition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Copyright: 01/01/2000
Publisher: Financial Times Prentice Hall
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Summary

Definitive practival advice direct from the cutting edge, this is a book for the novice and seasoned trader, it leads the reader step-by-step through the markets and strategies, from the foundations to the trading frontiers.

Preface

Acknowledgments

xiv

Introduction: Do you have what it takes?

Basic training: a futures primer

(36)

The futures contract

(5)

It's as easy to sell short as to buy long

(2)

Margin and leverage

(4)

Delivery months

(3)

Brokers and commissions

(1)

The players

(3)

Basis risk

(1)

A hedging example

(5)

The exchange `open outcry' and the clearinghouse

(5)

The regulators and regulations

(1)

How to place an order

(5)

Advanced futures

(12)

Zero sum game

(1)

Money management

(1)

Contrary opinion theory

(1)

Spreads, straddles and switches

(6)

Normal or inverted?

(1)

The `Voice from the Tomb'

(2)

A diabolical story

(3)

An options primer

(20)

Options

(5)

How options work

(2)

How are option prices determined?

(5)

Should you exercise profitable options?

(1)

Should you ever exercise an option?

(1)

If selling options puts the odds in my favour, why not do it?

(2)

Options - a prime hedging tool

(2)

Stock index options

(2)

Advanced option strategies

(12)

Buying options to protect futures

(2)

Writing options as a hedging strategy

(1)

Covered option writing

(1)

Option spreads

(5)

Ratios

(3)

Eight winning option trading rules

(6)

The rules

(6)

Stay away from deep in the money options

(1)

Stay away from deep out of the money options

(1)

Trade slightly out of the money, at the money, or slightly in the money options

(1)

There is a time for all seasons

(1)

Covered call writing is a good strategy for what appears to be a bullish environment, and covered put writing is generally good for what looks like a bear

(1)

In `normal' markets, write straddles and strangles

(1)

Look for opportunities to backspread

(1)

Use options to hedge a profitable futures position

(2)

How to analyze the markets fundamentally

(39)

Fundamental analysis

(1)

Technical analysis

(1)

Which is the best way to go?

(1)

Financial futures

(13)

Energy

106

(3)

Agriculturals

109

(13)

Metals

122

(7)

How to analyze the markets technically

129

(52)

Does technical analysis work?

130

(1)

Charts

130

(15)

Classic chart patterns

145

(21)

Open interest

166

(4)

Oscillators

170

(6)

Point and figure charts

176

(2)

Japanese candlestick charts

178

(1)

Why technical analysis makes sense

179

(2)

The most valuable technical tool (TMVTT)

181

(12)

Bottom pickers vs. trend followers

182

(1)

Moving averages

183

(1)

A moving average primer

184

(8)

Bottom line

192

(1)

How to use TMVTT

193

(18)

Use the 30-day WMA to determine the longer term trend

193

(5)

Use the 2-day WMA with the 9-day WMA (simultaneously) to generate buy and sell signals

198

(13)

Additional rules for maximum success

206

(5)

A day trader's secrets

211

(8)

Your nine essential day trader's rules

212

(3)

The trend reversal day trading system

215

(4)

Your state of mind

219

(9)

Motive

220

(1)

The six hurdles to successful trading

221

(4)

Money management

225

(1)

If you don't feel right, you won't trade right

226

(1)

Your advantage

227

(1)

Twenty-five trading secrets of the pros

228

(15)

`Jesse's Secret': the most important lesson

243

(6)

To make the big money you need to catch and exploit the big move

243

(1)

Jesse Livermore

244

(2)

Those who can be right and sit tight

246

(3)

Appendix: World futures and options exchanges

249

(8)

Index

257

Commodity Futures and Options : A Step-by-Step Guide to Successful Trading

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0273650335

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