Options Made Simple: Simple, Easy to Understand Strategies Anyone can use for Success! -- Contents -- About the authors -- Chapter 1: What are options? -- What are options? -- Options versus shares -- Chapter summary -- Chapter 2: Advantages and risks -- Advantages of option trading -- Risks of option trading -- Chapter summary -- Chapter 3: Types of options -- Summary of call options and put options -- Option buyers (takers) -- Option sellers (writers) -- Call options -- Put options -- Company issued options -- Index options -- Chapter summary -- Chapter 4: Option pricing -- Stock pricing versus option pricing -- Intrinsic value -- Time value -- Pricing models -- Pay-off diagrams -- Chapter summary -- Chapter 5: The mechanics: how to buy, sell and exercise options -- Opening a position -- Closing a position -- Options clearing -- Option settlement -- Exercising an option -- Trading costs -- Margins -- Opening an options account -- Market makers -- Chapter summary -- Chapter 6: Buying options: the scenarios -- Buying options -- Buying a call option -- Buying a put option -- Chapter summary -- Chapter 7: Selling options: the scenarios -- Selling options -- Selling a covered call option -- Selling a naked call option -- Selling a put option -- Chapter summary -- Chapter 8: Choosing your option strategy -- Movement in price -- Time decay -- Volatility -- Chapter summary -- Chapter 9: Strategies for buying call options -- Buying call options -- Risks and disadvantages of buying call options -- Selecting your call option -- Chapter summary -- Chapter 10: Strategies for buying put options -- Buying put options -- Risks and disadvantages of buying put options -- Selecting your put option -- Chapter summary -- Chapter 11: Strategies for selling covered call options -- Selling call options -- Selling covered call options.

Risks and disadvantages of selling covered call options -- Selecting your covered call option -- Chapter summary -- Chapter 12: Strategies for selling naked call options -- Selling naked call options -- Naked call option strategies -- Risks and disadvantages of selling naked call options -- Chapter summary -- Chapter 13: Strategies for selling put options -- Selling put options -- Risks and disadvantages of selling put options -- Selling put options strategies -- Chapter summary -- Chapter 14: Advanced strategies: using multiple option spreads -- Multiple option strategies -- Bull spread -- Bull put spread -- Bear spreads -- Bear call spread -- Ratio call spread -- Calendar spread -- Chapter summary -- Chapter 15: Advanced strategies: straddles and strangles -- Option straddle strategy -- Option strangle strategies -- Chapter summary -- Appendix -- Glossary -- Index.