Option Volatility and Pricing: Advanced Trading Strategies and Techniques

THE CLASSIC BESTSELLING GUIDE--NOW REVISED AND UPDATED For two decades, Sheldon Natenberg's Option Volatility & Pricing has been one of the most widely read texts among serious option traders around the world. Now updated for today's market, the second edition takes an indepth look at the latest developments and trends in option products and trading strategies. Topics include: * Theoretical Pricing Models * Understanding Volatility* Trading and Hedging Strategies * Risk Management * Option Arbitrage * Option Theory and the Real World* Volatility Contracts The book presents strategies and techniques used by successful option traders at major exchanges and professional trading firms around the globe. Expanded and completely revised to address today's markets, it's the most comprehensive book on the subject, written by someone in the unique position of being both a professional trader and educator. Includes a glossary of option terminology and math essentials About the Author SHELDON NATENBERG is a well-known author and lecturer on options. He began his trading career in 1982 as an independent market maker in equity options at the Chicago Board Options Exchange. From 1985 to 2000 he traded commodity options, also as an independent floor trader, at the Chicago Board of Trade. Since 2000 he has been a member of the education team at Chicago Trading Company, a proprietary derivatives trading firm.