The Complete Guide to Spread Trading - Rilegato

Schap, Keith

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ISBN 10: 0071448446 ISBN 13: 9780071448444

Casa editrice: McGraw Hill, 2005

Riassunto

Spread trading, a low-risk, high-profit technique, involvesbuying a contract in one market while selling a different contractin another market to profit from the imbalance betweenthose markets.The Complete Guide to Spread Trading coversthe step-by-step mechanics for successfully executing morethan 25 calendar, intermarket, interest rate, volatility, andstock index spreads. It explains both basic and advancedspread techniques and strategies, revealing market situationswhere spreads are most appropriate as well as clarifying whatit means to buy or sell a spread, and more.

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L'autore:

Keith Schap has been a writer in the Market and Product Development of the Chicago Board of Trade since early 1993. Schap specializes in writing about the use of derivatives in financial risk management and also in uncovering and developing new ways of using exchange-traded derivatives for these purposes. Prior to his affiliation with the Board of Trade, he served as senior editor of Future's magazine, where he developed market outlooks in interest rate, equity, currency, energy, metals, and agricultural markets and also produced many of the magazine's overall economic outlooks. He also handled the risk management area of the magazine's coverage. During his dryer affiliation with these markets and the general area of risk management, he has contributed something over 300 articles to magazines and journals including Futures, Treasury and Risk Management, Derivative Strategies.

Product Description:

This book contains all you need to know about the predictable, profitable technique used by millions of professional investors Professional traders use spread trading strategies to increase their odds of success. "The Complete Guide to Spread Trading" reveals these traders' secrets, covering the step-by-step mechanics of more than 25 spread trades and showing you how to implement a low-risk spread strategy in virtually any market worldwide. Veteran industry analyst Keith Schap draws on his in-depth knowledge of spread trading along with years of conversations with top futures and options trading pros to explain: the nuts and bolts of spread trading, with examples of trades and explanations of which markets offer the best opportunities; guidelines for choosing and structuring the most appropriate spread strategy for a specific market environment; and, explanations of calendar, intermarket, interest rate, volatility, commodity, and stock index spreads, each with its own chapter or section and with accompanying spreadsheets and charts. Traders looking for additional opportunities to be on the right side of a trade are familiar with the benefits of spread trading. "The Complete Guide to Spread Trading" will tell you what you need to know about these remarkable trading tools, and how you can use them to improve your performance in virtually any market situation. 'The guy who spreads and makes a little every day is the one who walks away with the big money' - A veteran trader, quoted in "Futures". "The Complete Guide to Spread Trading" outlines the many profitable advantages of spread trading, along with explanations and illustrations of how you can expect spreads to perform in the heat of trading. Self-contained chapters introduce more than two dozen representative spread strategies, discussing the market background and driving economic factors of each strategy, showing how to structure the spread, and reviewing how such spread trades have historically performed in vari

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• Editore: McGraw Hill
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0071448446
• ISBN 13: 9780071448444
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 320