Mark D Wolfinger

eBook, ePUB

The Option Trader's Mindset: Think Like a Winner (eBook, ePUB)

Beschreibung

Veteran teacher (since 2000) and options trader (since 1975) Mark D Wolfinger shares his insights into the difference between traders who win the trading game and those who either struggle or quit. Each chapter discusses a way of thinking -- a mindset -- that can truly alter the way you handle decision-making as a trader. You will find most suggestions to be right on the money and easy to accept. However, others make the argument that the obvious solution to a problem is not the best solution -- and that is more difficult to accept. Analyze the reasoning and decide yourself whether a new mindset would improve your bottom line.

At best this book offers suggestions that will increase your productivity as a trader.

At worst, readers who prefer to stick with traditional, obvious, way of making decisions will have the opportunity to seriously think about Wolfinger's suggestions and compare them with their current methods. Just making that comparison and reaching a careful conclusion -- even when it is to continue as you have been doing -- will prove to be an important educational exercise. Too many traders adopt "the obvious" without a second thought. This book presents opportunities to really think about, and select, ideas that affect your results as a trader.

Ideas covered include: An understanding of the 'Greatest Risk of All" when trading; Asking the question: "How much can I expect to earn as a trader?"; The philosophy of holding a losing position until it gets back to break-even; and more.

This is not your typical options-trading book.

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• Größe: 1.13MB
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Autor

I first began trading options in 1975; just two years after the CBOE (Chicago Board Options Exchange) opened its trading floor. My strategy of choice was writing covered calls. In late 1976, I was employed by Monsanto Company as a research chemist when a friend bought a seat on the CBOE. We had lengthy discussions about his new venture. Long story short, he gave me an opportunity to come to Chicago and trade as a market maker as the nominee for someone who owned a seat on the exchange, but who did not want to trade himself. I accepted, quit my job and drove to Chicago. That was December 20, 1976 and my life changed forever. I'm still in the options business, 37 years later. I left the CBOE trading floor in the year 2000. Since that time I've been trading my own account just as you do as a retail customer. But, I added something new when I began writing and teaching others how to trade options with a conservative bias. My first book was published in 2002 (The Short Book on Options) and others followed. Update. I am now retired from trading. I published a blog for several years, and the contents are still available. My current projects include a) developing this blog at about.com and would love to hear from you with comments, questions, requests for topics to discuss, etc., and b) writing a series of eBooks on individual option strategies. My books: • The Rookies Guide to Options, 2nd Edition (2013) • Create your own Hedge Fund (2005) • The Short Book on Options (2002) My eBooks: • Introduction to Options: The Basics (2014) • Writing Naked Puts (2014) • The Short Book on Options (2002, 2014) • The Option Trader's Mindset: Think Like a Winner (2012) • Lessons of a Lifetime: My 33 years as an Option Trader (2010)

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Mark D Wolfinger
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781310156632
• Artikelnr.: 47410718