Table of Contents

Foreword
Acknowledgments
Disclaimer and Disclosure
Introduction
Chapter 1. My First Year in the Options Business: What I Learned and How I Learned It
Chapter 2. The Difference Between Me and You
Chapter 3. Spreading the Risk
Chapter 4. An Option By Any Other Name
Chapter 5. The Zen of Trading and Hoping to Never Get a Real Job
Chapter 6. Know Your Enemy: Market Makers and the Market
Chapter 7. Using What You Know About Market Makers to Your Advantage--Part 1
Chapter 8. Using What You Know About Market Makers to Your Advantage--Part 2
Chapter 9. Using What You Know About Market Makers to Your Advantage--Part 3
Chapter 10. The Shift of Power: How Decimalization, Multiple Listing, and Technology Changed the Rules of the Game
Chapter 11. Synthetics and the Professional Traders' Indifference Between Puts and Calls
Chapter 12. Expiration Trading: Cranking Up the Gain
Chapter 13. Living on the Edge: Volatility on Every Trade
Chapter 14. Volatility and Straddles: The Market Maker Trade
Chapter 15. Arbitrage and Niche Trading: How Small Profits Add Up to Big Money
Chapter 16. Monitoring Options Portfolio Risk
Chapter 17. The Symbiotic Relationship Between the Makers and the Takers
Chapter 18. Playing the Numbers: Interpreting Options Data
Chapter 19. Stories, Sayings, and Adventures From the Epicenter of the Options Universe

Foreword Acknowledgments Disclaimer and Disclosure Introduction Chapter 1. My First Year in the Options Business: What I Learned and How I Learned It Chapter 2. The Difference Between Me and You Chapter 3. Spreading the Risk Chapter 4. An Option By Any Other Name Chapter 5. The Zen of Trading and Hoping to Never Get a Real Job Chapter 6. Know Your Enemy: Market Makers and the Market Chapter 7. Using What You Know About Market Makers to Your Advantage--Part 1 Chapter 8. Using What You Know About Market Makers to Your Advantage--Part 2 Chapter 9. Using What You Know About Market Makers to Your Advantage--Part 3 Chapter 10. The Shift of Power: How Decimalization, Multiple Listing, and Technology Changed the Rules of the Game Chapter 11. Synthetics and the Professional Traders' Indifference Between Puts and Calls Chapter 12. Expiration Trading: Cranking Up the Gain Chapter 13. Living on the Edge: Volatility on Every Trade Chapter 14. Volatility and Straddles: The Market Maker Trade Chapter 15. Arbitrage and Niche Trading: How Small Profits Add Up to Big Money Chapter 16. Monitoring Options Portfolio Risk Chapter 17. The Symbiotic Relationship Between the Makers and the Takers Chapter 18. Playing the Numbers: Interpreting Options Data Chapter 19. Stories, Sayings, and Adventures From the Epicenter of the Options Universe

About the Author

Dan Passarelli is the author of the book Trading Option Greeks and founder of Market Taker Mentoring LLC™. Market Taker Mentoring provides options education, including personalized, one-on-one mentoring for option traders. The company website is http://www.markettaker.com.

Dan started his trading career on the floor of the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) as an equity options market maker. He also traded agricultural options and futures on the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade. In 2005, Dan joined CBOE’s Options Institute and began teaching both basic and advanced trading concepts to retail traders, brokers, institutional traders, financial planners and advisors, money managers, and market makers. In addition to his work with the CBOE, he taught options strategies at the Options Industry Council.

Dan can be reached at dan@markettaker.com. He can be followed on Twitter at twitter.com/Dan_Passarelli.