Profiting from Weekly Options: How to Earn Consistent Income Trading Weekly Option Serials

275 Pages·2015·2.27 MB·English

by  Robert J. Seifert

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ROFITING FROM
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EEKLY PTIONS
How to Earn Consistent Income Trading
Weekly Option Serials
Robert J. Seifert
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CONTENTS
Foreword xiii
Todd‘‘Bubba’’Horwitz
Preface xv
Acknowledgments xvii
CHAPTER1 MarketPsychology:TheMind-SetofaTrader 1 vii
TheHerdMentality:Bubbles 2
TheSouthSeaBubble1711–1721:Trade,War,and
GovernmentCollusion 2
TheCottonPanicof1837:Land,Commodities,and
Government 4
ThePanicof1893:RailroadsHaveNoUpperLimit 6
September11,2001:PriceCanNeverGoUpAgain 7
TheCommodityBubbleof2008:PriceCanNeverGo
DownAgain 8
Bitcoin2009toPresent:Crypto-CurrencyMeets
Greed 10
LessonstoBeLearned 11
Chapter1Quiz 12
CHAPTER2 ModernMarkets 15
EquityMarkets 15
Liquidity 16
FlowofFunds 17
FuturesMarkets:Origins 18
CalculatingFutureContractValues 18
TickSize 19
Margin 20
StockIndexFutures 20
IndexFuturesversusStock 21
Forex:Currencies 22
Options 22
Summary 23
Chapter2Quiz 23
CHAPTER3 TechnicalversusFundamentalPriceAnalysis 27
Summary 29
Chapter3Quiz 29
CHAPTER4 PhasesoftheMarket 31
Congestion 31
viii
BreakouttotheTrend 33
TS Blowoff 35
N
E
T Summary 37
N
O
C Chapter4Quiz 37
CHAPTER5 TheRelationshipofTimeandPrice 41
Summary 47
Chapter5Quiz 48
CHAPTER6 IntroductiontoOptions 51
BasicOptionGlossary 51
WorkingOptionVocabulary 56
Summary 58
Chapter6Quiz 58
CHAPTER7 TheOptionModel 63
GamesofChance 63
AirintheBalloon 66