Options Central

This online newsletter offers up-to-date information on the options industry, options strategy articles, Q&A, and seminar information.

2011

• Summer (PDF)
  Further Insight into Options Pricing: The Rationale for Multiple Implied Volatilities – Options Skew

2010

• Fall (PDF)
  Interest Rates: An Often Overlooked Component in the Valuation of Options
• Summer (PDF)
  How to Change Your Strategy for a Changing Market
• Spring (PDF)
  Backspreads – Preparing for Big Market Moves
• Winter (PDF)
  Covered Calls and Time Decay

2009

• Fall (PDF)
  Market Expectations and the Implications on Options Traders
• Summer (PDF)
  Understanding Covered Calls and Buy-Write Strategies
• Spring (PDF)
  Portfolio Margining

2008

• Fall (PDF)
  A Deeper Look Into Why Options Go Unexercised
• Summer (PDF)
  Option Exercise and Assignment
• Spring (PDF)
  Developing a Trading Strategy
• Winter (PDF)
  It's All Greek to Me

2007

• Fall (PDF)
  Trading on Options Volatility
• Summer (PDF)
  Options Myths (PDF)
• Winter (PDF)
  Time Erosion

2006

• Fall (PDF)
  Using LEAPS in Long-Term Investment Planning
• Spring/Summer (PDF)
  Volatility and the Long Straddle
• Winter (PDF)
  Options Synthetics and the Principle of Put-Call Parity

2005

• Fall (PDF)
  Buy a Spread? Sell a Spread? Take your pick.
• Summer (PDF)
  Insuring Your Portfolio with Cross-Hedging

2004

• Fall (PDF)
  Using the Covered Combination to Ensure Investor Discipline
• Summer (PDF)
  Options Pricing Models and Their Role in Setting Investor Expectations
• Spring (PDF)
  Using Options to Speculate On or Hedge Against Interest Rates

2003

• Winter (PDF)
  Worried About Early Assignment? Don't Panic!
• Fall (PDF)
  LEAPS End-of-Year Tax Strategy
• Summer (PDF)
  Options as an Alternative to Fixed Income and Cash
• Spring (PDF)
  Prepackaged Protection

2002

• Winter (PDF)
  An Opportunistic Options Combo for QQQ, the Nasdaq 100 Index ETF
• Fall (PDF)
  Options for the Deflated Stock Portfolio
• Summer (PDF)
  Selling Puts: Risky or Conservative?
• Spring (PDF)
  Options and Risk Management: Combining Options with Underlying Positions

2001

• Fall (PDF)
  Forget the Cheese: Applying the Call Ratio Spread for Potential Recovery

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