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Strategies & Market Trends : Option Spreads, Credit my Debit -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: KFE who wrote (1914)	1/19/2001 8:50:11 AM
From: Robert V. Cavaleri	Respond to of 2317

Ken, Thanks much for all the options reading. I have already read the cboe pages on options, and I have just completed the book 'Options: a personal seminar' (forgot the author...) didn't scare me this time, but years ago I started to read options and was turned off by the complexity initially. Now I am absorbing and understanding. It's easy to see the advantages of leverage of options, but it is also obvious that there are other factors involved that could easily cause you to loose your investment. At this point, I am a sponge just looking to absorb and understand. I still have many questions and thoughts about the risks and strategies involved, and I wouldn't consider trading options until I felt I understood the more important relationships that govern pricing (implied volatility, time factor, basically determining criteria that make for high profit potential, and reduced risk plays). I have learned much from your posts. Clearly you have formulated ideas about what types of scenarios you feel are prudent for options plays that increase profit potential and reduce risk. I do not understand those criteria fully yet, and that is what I am now searching for. I will examine some of the suggested readings you provided. many thanks.