Hardcover: 400 pages
Publisher: FT Press (April 17, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0131710664
ISBN-13: 978-0131710665
Product Dimensions: 7.3 x 1.1 x 9.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (107 customer reviews)
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At first glance, I - like other reviewers - thought that Cohen had written a nice reference where one could quickly find an option strategy that matches market conditions. To a limited extent, the strategy table at the end of the book accomplishes this. If you want to trade these strategies, however, you will have to learn how somewhere else.The axes of the six charts presented in each section are not labeled, do plot data and are too small to read. The chart captions refer to option strikes that are not shown on the charts. Neither are the break-even points that are discussed in the text. The volatility charts often show volatility swinging from negative to positive to negative (Volatility can never be negative, but since the axes are not labeled, I assume that is what he is trying to plot here); yet the chart caption only says that volatility is either helpful or harmful.Also, the keys to the curves in the charts are inconsistent even though the curves appear to have been plotted for the same time frame. For example, on page 79 curves are plotted for options at "Expiration", "5 months to Exp.", and "1 month to Exp." while on page 60 the curves are plotted for "Expiration", "Today - 1 month", and "Time (t) - 5 days". I have no idea what the latter means.The text is so full of omissions and errors that it is hard to believe that the people who endorsed the book (Bernie Schaeffer, Alpesh Patel and Price Headley) ever read it. Some examples follow.In the examples of net credit trades (e.g., p.45) the author calculates a return on investment (ROI). There is no investment on a net credit trade.The risk profile for a calendar call (p.63) has no key. What time period does this curve represent?
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