Options Strategies for the Stock Investor: How to Use Options in a Stock Portfolio to Protect Profits, Enhance Yield & Hedge Risk

Options Strategies for the Stock Investor introduces the power of options when used as a "tool" for an investor's stock investments. If properly understood and used, options can offer any stock investor alternative choices outside of the binary decision to "buy or sell" - options can be used to lock in profits on a stock, to enhance a stock's yield or to hedge a stock's risk. Options Strategies for the Stock Investor introduces the best ways to achieve these objectives through real life, easy to follow examples with deeply insightful market commentary. With both Puts and Calls and the choice of being either a seller or a buyer of both, the possibilities available to a stock investor are virtually limitless. Options Strategies for the Stock Investor also includes: -comprehensive overview of the fundamentals of options, including the basic option positions, (non-technical) option valuation, real-market insight and more-bonus chapter which introduces 17 core options strategies-options strategies to lock-in profits, enhance yield and hedge risk-comprehensive, step-by-step trade examples throughout the book-stock replacement strategies