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If you're an investor concerned with preserving capital, maximizing predictability, and maintaining consistently strong returns, your best solution just might surprise you: Options. In Options Trading for the Conservative Investor, Michael C. Thomsett reveals a narrow band of options strategies that can help you improve results as you systematically reduce unnecessary risk throughout your portfolio.Thomsett, author of the global best-seller Getting Started in Options, writes in simple, nontechnical language, uses real examples, and guides you through every strategy-one easy step at a time. He's made this book simple and visual enough for any experienced investor to use, even if they have no experience trading options. Thomsett is also the author of Stock Profits: Getting to the Core (Financial Times-Prentice Hall 2004), The Leaps Strategist (Marketplace Books 2004), and Investment and Securities Dictionary (McFarland & Company 1986).Thomsett systematically covers several options strategies optimized for conservative investors, including covered call writing on carefully selected stocks, contingent purchase strategies, and powerful "combination" strategies that produce cash to bolster current income. No matter how cautious an investor you are, this book will give you powerful new tools for achieving your financial goals-without losing a moment of sleep.Fundamental ground rules for conservative options investorsWhat you should know and believe before you get startedHow options fit into your conservative trading strategyDeciding what stocks to buy or sell options on-and what to avoidExamples and case studies based on an actual model portfolioPractical guidance for leveraging each strategy with your own portfolioPractical "rescue" strategiesRecovering your investments when market values have fallenHow to take profits without selling stockStep-by-step techniques based on long puts and short callsImprove Returns-Without Added Risk!Easy, step-by-step options strategies for increasing income and protecting capitalPreserving your spending power after inflation and taxesAvoiding unacceptable market, liquidity, and diversification risksProtecting your profits without losing invested positionsNo options experience necessary!By Michael C. Thomsett, author of the worldwide best-seller Getting Started in Options, 6th Edition (John Wiley & Sons 2005)The world's #1 options author has written the definitive options guide for conservative investors! One step at a time, you'll discover how to use options to increase yields, reduce risks, protect existing positions, and ride safely through any market down cycle. Want double-digit returns without heart-pounding risk? Here are the options you've been searching for!© Copyright Pearson Education. All rights reserved.
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Options trading for the conservative investor: increasing profits without increasing your risk
2010, Financial Times-Prentice Hall
in English
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Options Trading for the Conservative Investor
2007, Financial Times - Domestic (Jim)
Electronic resource
in English
0132044862 9780132044868
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Options trading for the conservative investor: increasing profits without increasing your risk
2005, Prentice Hall/Financial Times
in English
0131497855 9780131497856
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Options Trading for the Conservative Investor: Increasing Profits Without Increasing Your Risk (Financial Times Prentice Hall Books)
May 13, 2005, FT Press
Hardcover
in English
0131497855 9780131497856
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Options Trading for the Conservative Investor: Increasing Profits Without Increasing Your Risk (Financial Times Prentice Hall Books)
May 13, 2005, FT Press
in English
0131497855 9780131497856
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"This book explains how conservative investors can employ option strategies to (a) enhance current income without increasing market risks; (b) protect long-positions through options used for insurance; and (c) use options as a form of contingency in volatile market conditions."
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