Increasing Alpha with Options: Trading Strategies Using Technical Analysis and Market Indicators (Bloomberg Financial) Reviews
Increasing Alpha with Options: Trading Strategies Using Technical Analysis and Market Indicators (Bloomberg Financial)
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Innovative trading strategies, which combine the use of technical analysis, market indicators, and optionsIn the new world of investing, money managers must deal with a variety of dynamics, products, analyses, and risk controls. They are also expected to achieve above-benchmark performance and profits, also known as alpha, as well as protect capital in the process. This can be difficult to achieve in today’s turbulent market environment, but with Increasing Alpha with Options, author Scott Fullm
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How to Use Options and Technical Analysis to Improve Performance,
Increasing Alpha with Options by Scott H. Fullman, CMT (Bloomberg Press, $55)
Because options expire, investing using them is a lot like humor–timing is everything. Fortunately, in this book, one is not only introduced to options strategies such as writing covered calls, strangles, and straddles, but is shown how to use basic technical analysis to determine the direction, magnitude, and speed of the underlying stock changes and thus the appropriate option contracts to capitalize on the expected stock price movement. More importantly, he goes on to spell out the risks involved and shares valuable rules of thumb from his 30+ years in financial services.
Mr. Fullman’s book not only spells out the basics of options and technical analysis, but also shows how options can be used to hedge exposure in the real world to create positive alpha–performance better than that of the overall market. It should find a broad audience among pension fund, endowment, and hedge fund managers who seek to maximize returns while reducing risk. For individual investors seeking to earn better returns than a buy-and-hold strategy offers without taking on undue risk, it opens the door to a rich set of possibilities.
Both experienced and novice options investors will find the tables comparing various strategies for achieving an investment objective instructive. These tables compare the net cost, capital requirements, upside potential, downside risk, and break-even for strategies designed to accomplish the same objective, e.g., a bullish investment in a stock. By ranking each alternative strategy–long call, bullish call spread, bullish ratio spread, bull spread with short put, or outright purchase of the stock–investors can determine which strategy is most robust given their risk/reward preferences.
Michael J. Ham, CFA
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