How to Make Money Trading Derivatives · an Insider's Guide by Gujral, Ashwani -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

About the Book About the Author Title Dedication Contents Preface to the 3rd Edition Preface 1. The Indian Equity and Derivative Markets

The Indian Stock Market The Difference between a Trader and an Investor Derivatives Aspects of Successful Trading

2. ADX — The Anatomy of a Trend

Technical Analysis Types of Trading The Anatomy of a Bar Trends The Big Question: Is the Market Trending or Trading?

3. Technical Methods

Indicators Oscillators (or Momentum Oscillators) Fibonacci Methods Candlestick Charting

4. Applying Technicals to Trading

Swing Trading Successful Retest Bull and Bear Flags Support and Resistance Diagrams for the Swing Trader

5. Day Trading Rules and Setups

Day Trading Setups

6. Cash and Futures Arbitrage

7. Getting to Grips with Options

Options: Some Important Concepts Factors That Determine the Price of an Option The Greeks Factors to Keep in Mind When Buying Options

8. Strategies for Trading Options

Introduction Vertical Spreads Rolling Options Up, Down and Out Straddles

9. The Covered Call: Who Says 4% Returns per Month are History

Why Covered Call Writing Makes Sense in India What Kind of Returns Are We Talking About? How Covered Call Writing Compares with Simply Going Long Deciding on the Stocks to Buy and the Strikes to Write Follow up Strategies Writing Index Covered Call Options Advance Implementation Benefits of the Covered Call Strategy Why Don’t Many Other People Do It?

10. Derivative Strategies for Special Situations

Writing Covered Calls Just Before Important Announcements or News Company Results Election Results Cabinet Committee Meetings

11. Trading Discipline

What is Discipline? Qualities of a Disciplined Trader Traits of the Indisciplined Trader My Trading Manual

12. Money Management

The Size of Your Trading Positions should be Based on the Size of Your Trading Capital What is Money Management? Position Sizing Strategies Stops Exits

13. Selection of Stocks and Futures

Bottom Up Analysis Top Down Analysis Rate of Change (ROC) Adding a Fundamental Valuation Parameter

14. My Trading Diary — The Bubble and the Crash: February-June 2006 15. The AG Last Hour Trading Technique

What’s So Special about the First and Last Hours of a Trading Day? The Context of the Market How to Select the Right Stocks to Trade Examples Conclusion

Appendix-1: Permitted Contract Sizes Appendix-II: Calculating Implied Volatility Appendix-III: Using the Peter Hoadley Options Strategy Software