Jeanette Schwarz Young – The Options Doctor

Jeanette Schwarz Young – The Options Doctor

Description

The Options Doctor is an essential resource for good traders who want to be great. Years of experience and painful lessons are translated into winning strategies for all market conditions with tips to gain an edge in the market. Whether your portfolio is up or down…thi9s is what the doctor ordered!
— William J. P. Dale, Vice President and Portfolio Manager, RBC Dominion Securities, Royal Bank of Canada

“Jeanette Schwarz Young says that the options business ‘is a treasure hunt with a real treasure at the end,’ and so is her book. She makes complicated topics-candlesticks, butterflies, Condors, straddles and strangles, and more-Understandable, even as she discusses how she entered the business, mastered and created tools of the trade, and helps others manage both winning an losing positions. She clearly is a treasure, too.”
— Dr. Robert A. Scott, President, Adelphi University

“Anyone wanting to learn how to apply technical analysis to options trading should find The Options Doctor very useful. Young is at her best when she explains her favorite trading tools. I especially liked reading about her experiences on the trading floor which have given her a unique view of market trading.”
— John Murphy, author, Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets and Intermarket Analysis

Table of Contents

Preface.

Acknowledgments.

About the Author.

PART I: Market Outlook.

Chapter 1. What is Technical Analysis?

Chapter 2. Basic Charting.

Chapter 3. Identifying Trends and Calculating Support and Resistance.

Chapter 4. Pattern Recognition.

Chapter 5. Momentum and Other Indicators.

Chapter 6. Bonds, Currencies, and Commodities.

PART II: Options Strategies.

Chapter 7. Introduction to Options.

Chapter 8. Using Options in Trending Markets.

Chapter 9. Using Options in Trading Range Markets.

Chapter 10. Using Options in reversing Markets.

PART III: Managing a Position.

Chapter 11. Fundamental Hedging Strategies.

Chapter 12. Managing a Losing Position.

Chapter 13. Managing a Winning Position.

Chapter 14. Pulling it All Together.

Appendix. Trading Tools I have Developed.

Index.

Author Information

Jeanette Schwarz Young is the author of the Option Queen Letter and a floor trader/hedger at the New York Board of Trade. She is a member of options settlement, member benefits, floor trading privileges, index products, new products, and the floor committee. She can be seen live every day on NYBOT-TV with the News on the Softs and U.S. Dollar Index Report. Young has been appointed to Adelphi University’s President’s Advisory Counsel. She has received a top-ten winner award in the National Investment Challenge Pro Option’s division for two years and has eve placed top three in the world. She has appeared on FOX News, CNNfn, Bloomberg, and CNBC and is a member of the American Association of Professional technical Analysts, Market Technicians Association, and the Financial Planning Association.