The Volatility Course Workbook: Step-By-Step Exercises to Help You Master the Volatility Course

ISBN-13: 9780471398172 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 192 str.

George A. Fontanills; Tom Gentile

Opis

It takes a special set of trading skills to thrive in today's intensely volatile markets, where point swings of plus or minus 200 points can occur on a weekly, sometimes daily, basis. The Volatility Course arms stock and options traders with those skills. George Fontanills and Tom Gentile provide readers with a deeper understanding of market volatility and the forces that drive it. They develop a comprehensive road map detailing how to identify its ups and downs. And they describe proven strategies and tools for quantifying volatility and confidently developing plans tailored to virtually any given market condition. The companion workbook provides step-by-step exercises to help you master the strategies outlined in The Volatility Course before putting them into action in the markets.

Spis treści

QUESTIONS AND EXERCISES.

1. Crisis and Chaos in Financial Markets.

2. Volatility in the Stock Market.

3. Historical Volatility.


4. Trading Historical Volatility.

5. The World of Stock Options.

6. Implied Volatility.

7. VIX and Other Sentiment Indicators.

8. Exploiting Low Volatility.

9. Exploiting High Volatility.

10. Volatility Skews.

SOLUTIONS AND DISCUSSIONS.

1. Crisis and Chaos in Financial Markets.

2. Volatility in the Stock Market.

3. Historical Volatility.

4. Trading Historical Volatility.

5. The World of Stock Options.

6. Implied Volatility.

7. VIX and Other Sentiment Indicators.

8. Exploiting Low Volatility.

9. Exploiting High Volatility.

10. Volatility Skews.

APPENDIX: Paper Trading Templates.

O autorze

GEORGE A. FONTANILLS heads Pinnacle Investments of America, Inc., a hedge fund and money management company (www.piafunds.com). Pinnacle has recorded amazing returns for its investors with high–profit, low–risk trading strategies. For many years, Fontanills has been teaching the Optionetics Seminars–one of the best–attended courses in the world of finance–and spearheading the publication and dissemination of his strategies on Optionetics.com, a free Web site. Prior to Pinnacle, he was a principal at the American Stock Exchange. Fontanills has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Barron′s, Red Herring, and appears on Bloomberg, CNNfn, and CNBC. His bestselling books include Trade Options Online, The Options Course, and The Stock Market Course, all published by Wiley.

TOM GENTILE is Chief Options Strategist for Optionetics and is featured in numerous publications including Fortune, Barron′s, and The Wall Street Journal. As George Fontanills′ trading partner and co–instructor at Optionetics Seminars, Gentile′s passion for managed risk trading and straightforward style have added to his critical acclaim as one of the best trading instructors in the country.

Blurb

In The Volatility Course, renowned trader George Fontanills and his partner Tom Gentile provided stock and options traders with all the information they need to trade volatility–by arming them with an arsenal of different tools to use in any market condition. But to become a successful volatility trader, you have to know how to effectively apply this knowledge and when to utilize these tools in real–world trading situations.

In The Volatility Course Workbook, Fontanills and Gentile offer a wealth of practical exercises that will help further your understanding of volatility, as well as test and apply what you′ve learned before you take one step into the real markets–where time and money is a luxury you cannot afford to lose. This hands–on companion to The Volatility Course includes a complete answer key and covers such essentials as implied and historical volatility, VIX and other sentiment indicators, high– and low–volatility trading strategies, volatility skews, and much more.