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(More customer reviews)This is a case where I would have liked to leave a blank rating: I simply don't know enough to grade competently. My problem with this book is that, with a few exceptions (hedging bands of chapter 11; range-based vol estimation), it could have been written twenty-plus years ago, when Black, Scholes, Merton and Rubinstein had published their papers, and the volatility smile was known but not yet addressed by academics. Academics moved on - have practitioners followed?
If yes, I would penalize the book for being out-of-date and not 'fessing up to it. I would have been quite receptive to an argument that the main ideas can be demonstrated in the oldest, fundamental model, but the more recent stuff really needs to be in the book as well.
If not, no complaints, apart from insisting on more substantial chapters 9 and 11. Once we emerge from textbook options stuff after chapter 8 - including the titular "strategies", in chapter 6 - there are only four chapters left, and one is taken up by textbook-again discussion of market-making. Less of familiar material, more of your thoughts, please.
This is a thorough and well-written discussion of options in the Black-Scholes world. (This means European equity options - no American options or exotics, no fixed-income etc.) 85% of the material was not new to me, and seen in Hull, and CFA and FRM curricula. I would wish to check if the remaining 15% had shown up in similar books, but even in that case the author deserves credit for bringing it all together, and first-rate presentation throughout. If one is looking for a comprehensive introductory-to-intermediate book on options, this is a reliable choice.
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