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(From The Jacket) - Investors worldwide are discovering the enormous opportunities available through commodity options trading. However, because commodities have differing underlying characteristics from equities, commodity ­options behave differently as well. In this book, two of the field’s most respected analysts present strategies built from the ground up for commodity options.

Carley Garner and Paul Brittain begin with a quick primer on how commodity options work, how they evolved, and why conventional options strategies often fail in the commodity options markets. Next, using detailed examples based on their own extensive research, they show how to leverage the unique characteristics of commodity options in your own trades. You’ll walk through trades from "top to bottom," master both long- and short-option approaches, and learn powerful strategies usually ignored in options books. For example, the authors introduce synthetic swing trading strategies that systematically reduce volatility from the market.

This book's easy-to-use trading strategies are strategically employed by the author's clients every day: With "Commodity Options", you can work to put the odds in your favor, too!

• WHY COMMODITY OPTIONS ARE DIFFERENT - AND WHAT IT MEANS TO YOU -- Understand key differences in the underlying assets and the logistics of market execution
• SYSTEMATICALLY REWRITE THE ODDS IN YOUR FAVOR -- Four ways to make winning trades more likely–and losing trades less common
• WHEN TO TRADE SHORT OPTIONS - AND HOW TO MANAGE THE RISK -- Why careful option selling may improve your odds of success
• MASTER STRATEGIES DESIGNED FOR DIVERSE MARKET CONDITIONS -- Combine long and short options to create the right strategy for any market opportunity
• EXPLOIT SHORT-LIVED TRENDS THROUGH "SYNTHETIC" SWING TRADING -- Get the advantages of futures contracts without the volatility

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Chapter 1 - Option Basics: A Crash Course In Option Mechanics
• Chapter 2 - An Option Is An Option Is An Option...Think Again
• Chapter 3 - Long Option Strategies
• Chapter 4 - Short Option Strategies
• Chapter 5 - Credit Spreads
• Chapter 6 - Limited Risk Option Spreads
• Chapter 7 - Synthetic Swing Trading
• Chapter 8 - The Other Ratio Spreads
• Chapter 9 - Limited Risk Range Trades
• Chapter 10 - Synthetic Long Option Plays
• Chapter 11 - An Option Trade From Top To Bottom
• Chapter 12 - The Wizard Of Oddz: Applying Option Strategies In The "Real World"
• Chapter 13 - Margins And Option Trading
• Chapter 14 - Commodity Trading Myths