Commodity Options: Trading and Hedging Volatility in the World's Most Lucrative Market

This book fills that gap and sets the record straight with clear and concise descriptions that are easy to understand. The authors exhaustively break down every component of a commodity option to its lowest common denominator, making this book an essential piece of information for those looking to expand their trading tool box or further build on existing option strategies.”—John Netto, Chief Investment Strategist, NetBlack Capital and author, One Shot—One Kill Trading Investors worldwide are discovering the enormous opportunities available through commodity options trading. For example, the authors introduce synthetic swing trading strategies that systematically reduce volatility from the market. You’ll walk through trades from “top to bottom,” master both long- and short-option approaches, and learn powerful strategies usually ignored in options books. In this book, two of the field’s most respected analysts present strategies

Carley Garner and Paul Brittain begin with a quick primer on how commodity options work, how they evolved, and why conventional options strategies often fail in the commodity options markets. Guaranteed to become a true source of value creation for anyone interested in trading commodity options."--Jeff Augen, author, "The Volatility Edge in Options Trading" ""Commodity Options "arms readers with the strategies and tactics needed to take a more active approach to managing risk in today's turbulent markets. For example, the authors introduce synthetic swing trading strategies that systematically reduce volatility from the market. This book fills that gap and sets the record straight with clear and concise descriptions that are easy to understand. This book's easy-to-use trading strategies are strategically employed by the author's clients every day: With "Commodity Options", you can work to put the odds in your fav

"Entry level options book - Barely specific to Commodity Options" according to Mann B.. Very, very disappointing book from my point of view!I've a good experience of Equity Options Trading, but no experience at all in Commodity Options Trading. So I expected from the title of this book that it deals with the specific aspects of Commodities, as compared with more conventional Equity or Index options. How to build a volatility surface, how to manage a portfolio composed with Commodity Options & Futures with several maturities, how to understand and manage seasonality and so on.Instead, it's simply a book about options strategy for beginners! Some examples deal a. Not as Advertised HedgeGuy I purchased this book thinking it would be filled with information about the commodities market. After all, the title was Commodities Options. All I found was maybe 2 or 3 pages about commodities and their contract sizes. Nothing about seasonalityor the best way to set up the differences betwen contracts owing to the partculars of commodities. I was going to return it immediately, but lost the mailing piece. False advertising at its best.It is just a 99% rehash of his other option book.. An average options book with commodity examples Jerome I. This book is ok.It contains a chapter that specifies the differences between stock options and commodity options, and the rest describes strategies using options.There's nothing really new. The crash course is somewhat not clear, making me think that you should read something else before this one.However, the strategies are well documented.All in all, it is ok, but I have two main criticisms :- this is not a "commodity options" book it is an options book, with commodity examples, and a chapter that describes the differences between commodities and stocks but the rest is p

As Alaron Las Vegas Branch Manager, he produces three newsletters: The Beast, BigMacDaddy, and The Optionologist. He founded Commodity Trading School to offer free online trading seminars. He has been quoted by many major news sources such as The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg News, and is a sought after speaker/participant at industry shows across the country. He has written articles for