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Start Trading Options: Trade Options Profitably (Book Review)

August 12, 2010 by Terry Chitwood 2 Comments

The Visual Investor: How to Spot Market Trends (Book Review)
The Guru Investor (Book Review)
Start Trading Options: Trade Options Profitably
By Kevin Kraus
188 pp.  Mc-Graw Hill

Start Trading Options: Trade Options Profitably by Kevin M. Kraus is a self-teaching guide to understanding futures/commodity options. I rate this book number one presently in the futures/commodity options for beginners category because of its simple layout and explanation of only the essential points of futures/commodity options. There are many books helping beginners understand stock options, but few books at the beginner’s level explain futures/commodity options.

From cocoa to crude oil, Kraus uses a number of different commodities to clearly illustrate how to understand commodity options and their trading strategies. Kraus dedicates a chapter to commodity options spread strategies. I think that working with different commodity contract sizing and pricing helps a trader to get a hands-on familiarity with calculating commodity options’ prices.

This book will make the job of understanding futures/commodity options easy. But more intensive, advanced study is needed before you plunge prematurely into trading options and risk losing your shirt and perhaps your pants as well. 

 

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