Jeff’s analysis is unique, at least among academic derivatives textbooks. I would definitely use this material in my derivatives class, as I believe students would benefit from analyzing the many dimensions of Jeff’s trading strategies. I especially found the material on trading the earnings cycle and discussion of how to insure against price jumps at known events very worthwhile.”

—D R . R OBERT J ENNINGS , Professor of Finance, Indiana University Kelley School of Business

“This is not just another book about options trading. The author shares a plethora of knowledge based on 20 years of trading experience and study of the financial markets. Jeff explains the myriad of complexities about options in a manner that is insightful and easy to understand. Given the growth in the options and derivatives markets over the past five years, this book is required reading for any serious investor or anyone in the financial service industries.”

—M ICHAEL P. O’H ARE , Head of Mergers & Acquisitions, Oppenheimer & Co. Inc.

“Those in the know will find this book to be an excellent resource and practical guide with exciting new insights into investing and hedging with options.”

—J IM M EYER , Managing Director, Sasqua Field Capital Partners LLC

“Jeff has focused everything I knew about options pricing and more through a hyper-insightful lens! This book provides a unique and practical perspective about options trading that should be required reading for professional and individual investors.”

—A RTHUR T ISI , Founder and CEO, EXA Infosystems; private investor and options trader

In The Volatility Edge in Options Trading , leading options trader Jeff Augen introduces breakthrough strategies for identifying subtle price distortions that arise from changes in market volatility. Drawing on more than a decade of never-before-published research, Augen provides new analytical techniques that every experienced options trader can use to study historical price changes, mitigate risk, limit market exposure, and structure mathematically sound high-return options positions. Augen bridges the gap between pricing theory mathematics and market realities, covering topics addressed in no other options trading book. He introduces new ways to exploit the rising volatility that precedes earnings releases; trade the monthly options expiration cycle; leverage put:call price parity disruptions; understand weekend and month-end effects on bid-ask spreads; and use options on the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) as a portfolio hedge. Unlike conventional guides, The Volatility Edge in Options Trading doesn’t rely on oversimplified positional analyses: it fully reflects ongoing changes in the prices of underlying securities, market volatility, and time decay. What’s more, Augen shows how to build your own customized analytical toolset using low-cost desktop software and data sources: tools that can transform his state-of-the-art strategies into practical buy/sell guidance.

An options investment strategy that reflects the markets’ fundamental mathematical properties

Presents strategies for achieving superior returns in widely diverse market conditions

Adaptive trading: how to dynamically manage option positions, and why you must

Includes precise, proven metrics and rules for adjusting complex positions

Effectively trading the earnings and expiration cycles

Leverage price distortions related to earnings and impending options expirations

Building a state-of-the-art analytical infrastructure

Use standard desktop software and data sources to build world-class decision-making tools

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The options market allows savvy investors to assume risk in a way that can be very profitable, if the right techniques are used with the proper insight. In Trading Options as a Professional, veteran floor trader James Bittman provides both full-time and professional traders with a highly practical blueprint for maximizing profits in the global options market.

This peerless guide helps you think like a market maker, arms you with the latest techniques for trading and managing options, and guides you in honing your proficiency at entering orders and anticipating strategy performance. Most importantly, it gives you access to one of the world’s leading educators and commentators as he candidly defines the seven trading areas that are essential for successful options traders to master:

• Option price behavior, including the Greeks
• Volatility
• Synthetic relationships
• Arbitrage strategies
• Delta-neutral trading
• Setting bid and ask prices
• Risk management

You will benefit from Bittman’s exceptional understanding of volatility, his perceptive examples from the real world, and the dozens of graphs and tables that illustrate his strategies and techniques. Each chapter is a complete, step-by-step lesson, and, collectively, give you the best toolbox of profit-making solutions on the options trading floor.

In addition, Trading Options as a Professional comes with Op-Eval Pro, a powerful software that enables you to analyze your trades before you make them by calculating implied volatility, graphing simple and complex options strategies, and saving analyses to review later.

Don’t be left guessing on the sidelines–trade with the confidence of a market maker by following the road map to higher profits in Trading Options as a Professional.

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Executing Data Quality Projects presents a systematic, proven approach to improving and creating data and information quality within the enterprise.

Recent studies show that data quality problems are costing businesses billions of dollars each year, with poor data linked to waste and inefficiency, damaged credibility among customers and suppliers, and an organizational inability to make sound decisions.

This book describes a Ten Step approach that combines a conceptual framework for understanding information quality with the tools, techniques, and instructions for improving and creating information quality. It includes numerous templates, detailed examples, and practical advice for executing every step of the approach. It allows for quick reference with an easy-to-use format highlighting key concepts and definitions, important checkpoints, communication activities, and best practices.

The author’s trademarked approach, in which she has trained Fortune 500 clients and hundreds of workshop attendees, applies to all types of data and all types of organizations.

• Includes numerous templates, detailed examples, and practical advice for executing every step of The Ten Steps approach.
• Allows for quick reference with an easy-to-use format highlighting key concepts and definitions, important checkpoints, communication activities, and best practices.
• A companion Web site includes links to numerous data quality resources, including many of the planning and information-gathering templates featured in the text, quick summaries of key ideas from The Ten Step methodology, and other tools and information that is available online.

My esteemed colleague describes a practical approach for planning and managing information quality. I recommend you read, understand, and apply the learnings found here.
– Larry P. English, President and Principal, Information Impact International, creator of the TIQM Quality System. Conceiver and co-Founder of the International Association for Information and Data Quality

In a subject that is long on talk and short on practical advice for implementation, Danette McGilvray is a refreshing exception. If you want to know HOW to execute data quality projects, read this book — everything you need to know is in here.
– David Plotkin, Data Quality Manager, California State Automobile Association

This book is a gem. Tested, validated and polished over a distinguished career as a practitioner and consultant, Danette’s Ten Steps methodology shines as a unique and much needed contribution to the information quality discipline. This practical and insightful book will quickly become the reference of choice for all those leading or participating in information quality improvement projects. Experienced project managers will use it to update and deepen their knowledge, new ones will use it as a roadmap to quickly become effective. Managers in organizations that have embraced generic improvement methodologies such as six sigma, lean or have developed internal ones would be wise to hand this book to their Black Belts and other improvement leaders.
– C. Lwanga Yonke, Information Quality Practitioner.

Danette’s book takes a pragmatic and practical approach to achieving the desired state of data quality within an organization. It is a “must-read” for any organization starting out on the road to data quality.
– Susan Stewart Goubeaux, Director, Business Intelligence, FHLBanks Office of Finance

“Data quality” has become one of those hackneyed phrases in our industry that everyone supports, but only a few organizations have achieved to the degree they need to move forward in their industries. What is required is a guide to explain to the business people who want better data just how to get it. This book is just such a guide. While the individual steps should not be a great surprise, her organization makes them immediately actionable to a degree previous books have not. In short, this is definitely required reading for anyone embarking on a data quality project.
– David Hay, President, Essential Strategies

Danette has taken what has previously been presented in the abstract and made an excellent, concrete guide toward improving data quality.
– John Ladley, President of IMCue Solutions

Using this methodology, you will never lose your way on your data quality project! This book is peppered with tips, guidelines, templates, cross-references, and call-out icons. Plus, there are many easy-to-follow examples for the most common types of data quality projects.
– Larissa T. Moss, President, Method Focus Inc.

This book presents a valuable reference for not just data professionals, but also project managers and business representatives interested in or responsible for establishing, maintaining, and/or improving data and information quality. What sets this book apart from others in the field is the business impact-driven approach to assessing and improving data quality, and the specific steps and techniques it provides every step of the way.
– Mehmet Orun, Senior Manager / Principal Architect, Data Services CoE, Fortune 250 Company

“Comprehensive” is the first word I would use to describe this book. It addresses so many nuances of every aspect of data quality assessment and improvement―-things that would go unmentioned by more superficial treatments. Bravo!
– Michael Scofield, Manager, Data Asset Development, ESRI, Inc.

This book is a “must-own” for business and technical data quality managers and practitioners. Danette clearly demonstrates where her process will add value to quality projects that stand-alone or as the backbone of a successful data integration effort.
– Robert S. Seiner, KIK Consulting & Educational Services, LLC, The Data Administration Newsletter, LLC

Danette’s writing style is appropriate for her audience, the content is superb, and her Ten Steps approach is clear, easy to follow but comprehensive. This is an excellent book and I would think it will be an essential reference for any effort in data quality.
– Anne Marie Smith, PhD., Director of Education and Principal Consultant, EWSolutions, Inc.

Danette has compiled a valuable toolkit for managing information quality improvement projects. Her clear, concise definitions of concepts also make it a nice primer on the principles of information quality for data professionals, business managers, or students. I would recommend this practical handbook to anyone embarking on an information quality project.
– Eva Smith, MSIM, CCP, CDMP, Instructor, Computer Information Systems

No two data quality projects are the same. Some are large efforts focused entirely on improving some quality aspect of information. Others are subprojects within other efforts, such as a data migration. Still others are led by a few individuals trying to make a difference as they perform their everyday activities. What I like about McGilvray’s Ten Steps approach is that it can serve any of these situations. This book provides a structured, easy-to-understand, and easy-to-govern methodology that you can apply to the degree that is appropriate for you.
– Gwen Thomas, President, The Data Governance Institute

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After the first volume of financial analyst Jeffrey Kennedy’s articles on technical trading education was published, readers immediately demanded more. What followed was a popular series that came to be known as the Trader’s Classroom Collection of eBooks, a must for the libraries of every market analyst and active trader. A career market technician and dedicated student of the markets, Jeffrey Kennedy is considered one of the world’s foremost authorities in the field of Elliott wave analysis among other technical disciplines, such as Fibonacci numbers, MACD, trendlines and more, including a few of his own market-tested proprietary techniques. With more than 15 years of experience in the markets and hundreds of teaching hours under his belt, Kennedy’s techniques are time-tested – more importantly market-tested – and presented in a way even novice traders can understand. Brimming with valuable new insights and lessons from one of the most professionally sought-after Elliott wave technicians in the world, lesson topics in volumes I-IV include: “How to Make Yourself a Better Trader,” “How the Wave Principle Fits Certain Trading Styles,” “How to Trade Using Elliott Wave Analysis,” “How to use Fibonacci Math to Improve Your Trading,” “High Opportunity Trade Setups,” “Fibonacci Trading Tips,” “How to Get the Mindset of a Trader” and “Trend Tricks of the Trader” among others. With this easy-to-follow, easy-to-reference eBook collection, you will learn to immediately apply powerful, professional-level techniques in your own trading. Best of all, the convenient format gives you access to these valuable trading lessons – just like those you would get from an intimate classroom setting – without the hassle and expense of traveling!

After the first volume of financial analyst Jeffrey Kennedy’s articles on technical trading education was published, readers immediately demanded more. What followed was a popular series that came to be known as the Trader’s Classroom Collection of eBooks, a must for the libraries of every market analyst and active trader. A career market technician and dedicated student of the markets, Jeffrey Kennedy is considered one of the world’s foremost authorities in the field of Elliott wave analysis among other technical disciplines, such as Fibonacci numbers, MACD, trendlines and more, including a few of his own market-tested proprietary techniques. With more than 15 years of experience in the markets and hundreds of teaching hours under his belt, Kennedy’s techniques are time-tested – more importantly market-tested – and presented in a way even novice traders can understand. Brimming with valuable new insights and lessons from one of the most professionally sought-after Elliott wave technicians in the world, lesson topics in volumes I-IV include: “How to Make Yourself a Better Trader,” “How the Wave Principle Fits Certain Trading Styles,” “How to Trade Using Elliott Wave Analysis,” “How to use Fibonacci Math to Improve Your Trading,” “High Opportunity Trade Setups,” “Fibonacci Trading Tips,” “How to Get the Mindset of a Trader” and “Trend Tricks of the Trader” among others. With this easy-to-follow, easy-to-reference eBook collection, you will learn to immediately apply powerful, professional-level techniques in your own trading. Best of all, the convenient format gives you access to these valuable trading lessons – just like those you would get from an intimate classroom setting – without the hassle and expense of traveling!

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This book explores how to set up an empirical model that helps with forecasting long-term economic growth. GDP forecasts for the years 2006 to 2020 for 40 countries are derived in a transparent way. Offering a systematic approach to models of potential GDP that can also be used for forecasts of more than a decade it fills the wide gap between the high demand for such models by banks, international organizations, and governments on the one hand and the limited supply on the other hand. Frequent forecast failures in the past (e.g. Japan 1990, Asia 1997) and the heavy economic losses they produced motivated the work. The book assesses the large number of theories of economic growth, the drivers of economic growth, the available datasets and the empirical methods on offer. A preference is shown for evolutionary models and an augmented Kaldor model. The book uses non-stationary panel techniques to find pair-wise cointegration among GDP per capita and its main correlates.

From the Back Cover

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An innovative A to Z guide to the world of hedge funds

The Long and Short of Hedge Funds presents readers with a unique look at these investment vehicles, the people who run them, and those who provide services to them. This book is a detailed guide of the industry and offers rare access to hedge fund managers and industry participants. The book provides the reader with a real education about hedge funds, gaining a firm understanding of the industry.

From the Back Cover

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Written by seasoned Wall Street prognosticator Peter Schiff–author of the bestselling book Crash Proof: How to Profit from the Coming Economic Collapse–The Little Book of Bull Moves in Bear Markets reveals how you should protect your assets and invest your money when the American economy is experiencing perilous economic downturns and wealth building is happening elsewhere. Filled with insightful commentary, inventive metaphors, and prescriptive advice, this book shows you how to make money under adverse market conditions by using a conservative, nontraditional investment strategy.

From the Inside Flap

From the Back Cover

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As a trading coach and financial advisor, Bennett McDowell has used his own proprietary trading system–Applied Reality Trading or ART to enhance the performance of his clients’ portfolios. Now McDowell outlines the unique benefits of his system and makes the case for trading the reality–not the fantasy–of financial markets. Readers will discover the importance of simplicity in a trading approach; how to develop “The Trader’s Mindset;” how to use ART(r) technical analysis software; and much more. The ART of Trading will enlighten readers in how to use reality to enrich both their financial portfolio and their own financial psychology.

From the Inside Flap

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Money management may very well be the most important piece of the trading puzzle. In A Trader’s Money Management System ,expert Bennett McDowell provides time-tested techniques that can turn a losing trader into a winning one?and take the winning trader to an entirely new level. In revealing his personal approach to staying out of trouble in the financial markets and maximizing profits, he offers comprehensive insights into:

• The psychology of risk control as well as the finer aspects of setting stop-loss exits
• The value of managing trade size and consistent record keeping
• The process of putting together your own personal money management system

Unlike other books that focus on the complex mathematical theories behind money management, this book presents its system instraight forward, easy-to-understand terms that will allow you to quickly see how these concepts work and immediately benefit from the value of effectively managing risk.

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From the Back Cover

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Key to the Secrets is the latest book written by Neall and reviews the first 4 books with an in depth discussion of their inter-connectedness. It tells the inner story of why the first four were written and how they work together. How it integrates forecasting, trading and the Law of Vibration into a complete trading system and introduces new sections on Gravity Centers, 1st Trade Harmonics, Cycles, Key Notes and Aligning Interior Vibrations.

Book Description:

The latest in the Secrets Books; written to bring together in one book a compilation of the other 4 and show how they all fit together. These books are pieces of a puzzle. Most of us have failed to recognize how to put these basic building blocks of nature into a workable system to give us what we want.

The universe is very abundant and willing to provide anything we desire; money, success, happiness, you name it and it is yours, when you align with the natural laws that govern life. You want to be a great trader …easy… when you understand the “path” to getting it. Without knowing how the pieces of a puzzle fit together, we spend all our time just shuffling them around and never “fitting into our life” what we really want.

We stay in a “trying to get it” mode and never get the pleasure of realizing our wants. We’re frustrated in a never ending search for a “way” and are left with that empty feeling of failure.

It’s easy and simple; it’s natural to everything and everybody to be able to get what one wants. These books address the way to become a successful trader – using forecasting, trading and the Law of Vibration. This last book shows the Key to making it all happen.

If you have read some or all of the Secrets Books then the Key to the Secrets – A Traders Primer will be a reminder and guide to put it all together. It will steer you back to the path you need to be on to make it happen.

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