Trade Your Way to Wealth: Earn Big Profits with No-Risk, Low-Risk, and Measured-Risk Strategies (Wiley Trading) Review

Trade Your Way to Wealth: Earn Big Profits with No-Risk, Low-Risk, and Measured-Risk Strategies (Wiley Trading)
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If you are reading this book for options trading ideas, it can not be recommended. I was certainly interested in a "no risk" options trade which Mr Kraft presents as the collar using LEAPS. A collar is buying stock and puts while selling calls and with LEAPS it would be looking to use options with at least one year to expiration. I believe it is possible to find collars with time frames of one year or longer that have no risk however -- there is a cost - which Mr Kraft does not discuss and the cost may be greater than the risk!!! For example, consider a stock trading at 52, 730 days to expiration, 35% voltility, 5% risk free interest, no dividend. The Black scholes formula values the 50 strike put at $7.04; the 60 strike call at $9.32. It appears that one can make an easy $2.28 (=9.32-7.04) if the stock does nothing and ends exactly at 52; that would represent a 2.28/52=4.4% return. But 1) the cost of holding that stock and buying the put (theres no margin required for selling the calls against long stock) is 52+7.04=59.04*.05*(risk free)*2years = $5.90. The true net return is MINUS 3.62 =2.28-5.90. That does not consider the opportunity cost of tying up your money for two years. There may be some good ideas in the book on the trading plan and generating tax free or low taxed income but there do not seem to be any really good ideas on trading options...

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