Option

Wizards®

Real life success stories

from the financial markets

 


 

  

by

John A. Sarkett

 

 

INTRODUCTION

“Nine out of 10 stock, futures and options traders lose their money.”

Anyone who comes in contact with the capitals markets has heard that statement.  For many, it is enough to dissuade.  They don’t venture any further.

A few press ahead.

A few turn the old saw on its head thusly: ‘one out of ten succeeds’ ---- and then immerse themselves in the business of finding out why.

The burning question, and quite literally, the million dollar question:  Why does that one succeed?

That’s what we have researched and written about for years, and try to show in this little book – the “ones,” if you will, the real stories of real people who took on the adverse odds and came out of the financial markets jungle with diamonds in hand.  We focus on options, and we call these winners Option Wizards®, after the name of the software we developed (and trademarked) years ago to help those brave enough to tackle the options markets.

How – exactly -- did they do it?  How did they win?

They, themselves, immersed themselves in training to learn the art and science of risk management, of options strategies, the Greeks, markets, technical analysis.

Then they started – small. First, paper trading, then live and breathing money, but small.  They took their losses, learned their craft, and pressed on.  Until they attained mastery, but with humility.  Each one profiled here regards the job of options trading as one of continual learning.  The same way doctors, pilots, professors and Indian chiefs and other highly trained individuals do.  They never stop learning.  Learn or die, some might say.

So ------ we’ll stop talking here, so you can start the process or more likely add to your own process of learning.

We wish you well, and hope that you, too, attain the confident and highly skilled status of Option Wizard®.

Sincerely,

John A. Sarkett
Winnetka, IL 60093
Wednesday, February 15, 2012


 

QUOTES

 

 


When you sell a man a book
you don't sell him just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue--
you sell him a whole new life.
Christopher Darlington Morley  (1890-1957)
 from his Parnassus on Wheels, 1917

 

Life consists not in holding good cards
but in playing those you hold well.
Josh Billings , 1818-1885, American Humorist


 

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.   The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. 
Joseph Campbell

 

When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left, I buy food and clothes.
Desiderius Erasmus

 

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.
Dwight D. Eisenhower , 34th President of the U.S.


 


 

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Compilation of features originally published in  

SFO, Futures and  Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities

First edition, copyright © 2012 John A. Sarkett.

 

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

 

 

ISBN-13:  978-1469930039
ISBN-10:  146993003X

 

Published by Sarkett Press,  Division of Sarkett & Associates, Inc.
Winnetka, Illinois 60093.   Cover design by author.  Printed in the United States of America