Trading Options for Edge: Profit from Options and Manage Risk Like the Professional Trading Firms

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DEG Press, 2017 - Business & Economics - 238 pages
If you have experience in option trading, or a strong understanding of the options markets, but want to better understand how to trade given certain market conditions, this is the book for you. Many people have some knowledge of trading strategies, but have no idea how to pull it all together. Mark Sebastian's latest book will teach trade evaluation, using Greeks, trading various spreads under different market conditions, portfolio-building, and risk management. Sebastian's approach will help traders understand how to find edge, what kind of trade under what conditions will capture edge, and how to create and successfully hedge to help you build your own personal Goldman Sachs or Merrill Lynch. The book demonstrates how to structure a portfolio of trades that makes more money with less risk.

About the author (2017)

Mark Sebastian is the CIO of Karman Line Capital and founder of Option Pit LLC, and a former member of both the Chicago Board Options Exchange and the American Stock Exchange. He is the author of the trading manual The Option Traders Hedge Fund and a frequent guest on CNBC, Fox Business News, Bloomberg, as well as a contributor to The Street's Real Money Pro. He has been published nationally including on Yahoo Finance, and quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Reuters, and Bloomberg. Mark has spoken for the Options Industry Council, CBOE, ISE, CME, and is a co-host on the Option Block podcast and Volatility Views podcast. He has a Bachelor's in Science from Villanova University.