Wolfinger, Mark Create Your Own Hedge Fund Increase Profits and Reduce Risks with ETFs and Options Wiley Trading Series
1. Edition - February 2005 51.90 Euro 2005. 234 Pages, Hardcover - Practical Approach Book - ISBN-10: 0-471-65507-4 ISBN-13: 978-0-471-65507-7 - John Wiley & Sons
Short description Create Your Own Hedge Fund explains how exchange-traded funds can be used in conjunction with an options strategy to attain steady growth. Beginning with a tutorial on options and ETFs, the book goes on to describe both investment approaches in great detail providing readers with a trading strategy that generates higher returns than buy-and-hold investing-and allows readers to reduce risk by adopting a hedging strategy. Filled with in-depth insights and expert advice, this book is intended for sophisticated individual investors and for those professional investors, traders, and other money managers looking to update their arsenal of investment tools.
From the contents Acknowledgments.
Preface.
PART I: Outperforming the Market.
CHAPTER 1: Modern Portfolio Theory.
CHAPTER 2: Can You Beat the Market? Should You Try?
CHAPTER 3: Hedge Funds.
PART II: Exchange Traded Funds.
CHAPTER 4: A Brief History of Mutual Funds and Exchange Traded Funds.
CHAPTER 5: Traditional Mutual Funds.
CHAPTER 6: Exchange Traded Funds.
PART III: Options.
CHAPTER 7: What Is an Option and How Does an Option Work?
CHAPTER 8: More Options Basics.
CHAPTER 9: Why Investors Buy and Sell Options.
CHAPTER 10: Option Strategies You Can Use to Make Money: Covered Call Writing.
CHAPTER 11: Option Strategies You Can Use to Make Money: Uncovered Put Writing.
CHAPTER 12: Historical Data: BuyWrite Index and Volatility Index.
PART IV: Putting It All Together.
CHAPTER 13: Building a Portfolio.
CHAPTER 14: Finding Your Style: Choosing an Option to Write.
CHAPTER 15: Covered Call Writing in Action: A Year of Trading.
