How to Make Money with Stock Options: A Basic Guide for the Conservative Investor

by Mervyn L. Hecht

Book Overview

How to Make Money with Stock Options is packed with insightful tips providing the cur investor a head start in successful stock marker investing. Shows the basic difference between stock and options,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 053310162X
• ISBN13: 9780533101627
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Vantage Press
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.

Customer Reviews

John's Review

Another Gem! Do NOT speculate in options witout reading this first! Buy calls and puts with the LOWEST possible 6 month implied volatility, sell calls and puts with the HIGHEST 6 month implied volatility! Also, pick high volume, therefore highly liguid options with the LOWEST bid/ask spreads tro maximize returns! These are some of the most important things I learned.

A valuable and easy-to-understand primer

Especially in these volatile times in the stock market, Hecht's book is extremely valuable reading for investors. Using plain language, Hecht explains how investors can hedge and pursue less risky strategies with stock options. Those who have some familiarity to investing in the stock market will have no trouble understanding Hecht's presentation of what is often difficult material. His book makes it easy for conservative investors, and those who want to pursue less risky approaches, to make stock options a part of their investment strategy. Thanks to Hecht's book, stock options are now an integral part of my approach to the market, and I'm benefitting handsomely.

A great primer for the new and the experienced

Being new to options trading, I read several books on the subject and would have to say that this book provides the easiest to read and understand explanation of the basics. It also promotes a conservative style of trading which assures the new trader will not kick off their options experience by some bad large, losing trades. While the book deals with the basics in a easy style, it also tackles more advanced techniques for those who progress quicker.

Great updated edition.

I have looked at the second edition of this book and can strongly recommend it. This is still the only book written for a general audience that give us 'little guys' what we need to make some money with options.

Very instructive and useful.

I am very impressed by how much this guy knows, and by the intelligence behind his system. I suspect that this is an ideal book for investors who know a lot as well as those of us who know almost nothing about this kind of investing.