Day Trading Options: Profiting from Price Distortions in Very Brief Time Frames

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Minimize Your Exposure to Market Risk and Increase Profits by Trading in Very Brief Time Frames

In today’s turbulent markets, traditional trading strategies have failed to provide protection from the rapid and violent changes that have swung the Dow down 330 points one day, up 280 points the next, and down 250 points at the open on the next. Fundamental analysis based on company performance and financial predictions has proven meaningless. Technical traders must now compete with institutional trading programs utilizing supercomputers that analyze and execute trades in millisecond time frames. So, how can a private investor compete in this environment?

In Day Trading Options, expert option trader Jeff Augen shows you how to continue to profit even in these chaotic times. You’ll learn to structure short-term trades that exploit well characterized price distortions and anomalies. You’ll discover a breakthrough technique for utilizing volatility to identify the beginning and end of short-lived trends. And, you’ll gain the knowledge to use this innovative technique to take advantage of financial news and planned events, rather than being at their mercy.

  • Abandon outdated trading strategies and conventional “wisdom”
    Minimize your exposure to market risk and increase your profits by trading in very brief time frames and structuring positions that are direction neutral
  • Understand why your once-reliable technical analysis and charting techniques are failing
    Explore new statistical evidence to discern how new advances in institutional program trading affect the private investor
  • Discover new models for analyzing volatility in different time frames
    Learn to evaluate option prices by comparing overnight, intraday, and traditional measures of volatility
  • Learn to identify and exploit short-lived volatility changes
    Use a newly defined charting technique to correctly time trades by identifying the beginning and end of short-term trends

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About the author

Jeff Augen, currently a private investor and writer, has spent more than a decade building a unique intellectual property portfolio of databases, algorithms, and associated software for technical analysis of derivatives prices. His work, which includes more than a million lines of computer code, is particularly focused on the identification of subtle anomalies and price distortions.

Augen has a 25-year history in information technology. As a cofounding executive of IBM’s Life Sciences Computing business, he defined a growth strategy that resulted in $1.2 billion of new revenue and managed a large portfolio of venture capital investments. From 2002 to 2005, Augen was President and CEO of TurboWorx Inc., a technical computing software company founded by the chairman of the Department of Computer Science at Yale University. His books include Trading Options at Expiration, The Option Trader’s Workbook, and The Volatility Edge in Options Trading.

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