Product Description
Books For Traders by Technical Analysis Inc.
Keene On The Market (229 pages, $75
hardcover, 2013, ISBN 978-1-118-59076-8)
by Andrew Keene,
published by John
Wiley. Options can
provide a high-leverage
approach to trading
that can significantly
limit the overall
risk of a trade or
provide additional income.
Option expert
Andrew Keene helps
aspiring investors to enter this sector by explaining
the principles of the option market
and showing readers how to utilize calls &
puts. Written for beginners as well as experienced
option traders, Keene On The
Market covers a lot of material ranging from
put & call basics, to complex options strategies
such as butterfly spreads and condors,
to time-tested trading plans to help maximize
overall trading returns while minimizing
losses. It also lays out techniques for
combining the elements of simple put & call
trades into more complex — yet possibly
safer and potentially more lucrative — option
trades. Keene was an independent equity
option trader at the Chicago Board Options
Exchange for 11 years, spending most
of that time as a market maker in more than
125 stocks.
Way Of The Trade: Tactical Applications
Of Underground Trading Methods For
Traders And Investors, with online video
course (346 pages,
$125 hardcover,
2013, ISBN 978-
1-118-59068-3) by
Jea Yu, published
by Wiley/Bloomberg
Press. While algorithms
have the upper
hand in today’s
markets with their
firepower and speed,
individual traders can still succeed by using
the market landscape to their advantage,
according to this author. In the book,
Yu presents an optimized and market-tested
hybrid approach for intraday, swing, or portfolio
traders. In his approach, he may hold
a position that fades the market for weeks
or even months at a time. It’s not a traditional
buy-and-hold method but a portfolio-
management system combining execution,
technical analysis, and the risk-aversion
and timing of a daytrader merged with
the analytics of an activist investor. This
book shares the author’s hybrid system. A
cofounder of the trading site Underground-
Trader.com, Yu provides analysis, lessons,
illustrations, and case studies.