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Former CBOE market maker and publisher, The Blue Page (options newsletter)

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Chicago

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Northbrook, IL

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Option Wizard Trading Method

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Energy 11. In battle there are only the normal and extraordinary forces, but their combinations are limitless; none can comprehend them all.

Sun Tzu, The Art of War

Options are an extraordinary force because they offer leverage. Leverage permits you to control a relatively large position with a relatively small outlay. Nevertheless, there is a price for this power. Options are complex, more so than many realize, and must be treated differently than stocks, indices and futures.

With the help of a tool like Option Wizard, the complexity can become your ally. The Option Wizard Trading Method tells how . . .

TABLE OF CONTENTS

0. Preludes of empowerment (page 1)
   
1. Preludes of warning 1
   
2. A picture and 2,263 words 2
   
3. Not turning back? 4
   
4. What is here? 4
   
5. Why trade at all? 5
   
6. Trading is . . . 5
   
7. Why trade options? 6
   
8. Options are different 6
   
9. Leverage 6
   
10. Time 6
    
11. Volatility 7
    
12. Probability 7
    
13. Limited Risk 7
    
14. Short Sale 7
    
15. Supercharged Trading 7
    
16. Trading Psychology 7
    
17. Relying On Mind 8
    
18. The Bavelas Effect 10
    
19. Ockham's Razor 10
    
20. How Marcia Clark Denied Reality and Lost the "Trial of the Century" 11
    
21. Money Management: Quantify Risk 12
    
22. Fundamental Analysis 12
    
23. Investors: Buy the company not the stock 12
    
24. Traders: Find Catalytic Change 13
    
25. Technical Analysis 13
    
26. The Force Index 14
    
27. The Effect of Change: King's Law of Prices 14
    
28. Measuring the Major Event 14
    
29. Building the Force Index 15
    
30. Seven Trading Rules 15
    
31. Examples 17
    
32. The False Breakout: Force Index feint and bob 22
    
33. Non-household names. 22
    
34. Household names 23
    
35. The Trend: Moving Averages, Trendlines, Slope 23
    
36. The Momentum (Stochastics) 24
    
37. Forecast 24
    
38. Option Wizard Analysis 24
    
39. Input the 6 Black-Scholes variables: 25
    
40. Review the 12 Option Wizard outputs 25
    
41. Historical volatility 25
    
42. Option price: fair value 25
    
43. Implied volatility 25
    
44. Volatility: implied vs. historical 25
    
45. Option premium decay table 26
    
46. Option premium decay charts 26
    
47. Percent to double, or stock-option movement 26
    
48. Probabilities 26
    
49. Delta table 27
    
50. Greeks 27
    
51. Strike Series 27
    
52. Spread Tables 27
    
53. Option Wizard Trading Rules (21) 28
    
54. Case histories 30
    
55. Selling Volatility 31
    
56. Expiration 37
    
57. Buying Calls: 39
    
58. Buying Puts 40
    
59. Probability: 41
    
60. Repair 43
    
61. Tax 46
    
62. On Trading: Actionless Activity: 49
    
63. On Trading: Short Selling 55
    
64. Media as a contrary indicator 57
    
65. Options Information on the Internet 63
    
66. Going forward: what's next? 65
    
67. The Force Index 70
68. Top Ten Options Mistakes 80
69. How Great Traders Go Bad 84
70. Love, not Ego 89
71. Trillion Dollar Bet 91
72. Selling Puts 102
73. Appendix A. Suggested Reading 112
74. Appendix B. What is Wealth? The Narcissus Survey 114
75. Appendix C. Option Wizard Trading Method Summarized 115