Sheldon Natenberg – Mastering Option Trading Volatility Strategies

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Video Course: Sheldon Natenberg – Mastering Option Trading Volatility Strategies

Join the ranks of the most successful option traders by mastering the key concept affecting option pricing―volatility. The world’s most acclaimed volatility expert and “Trader’s Hall of Fame” award winner Sheldon Natenberg provides a powerful, non-technical, step-by-step workshop for understanding why and how volatility plays such a critical role in options trading. Discover the strengths and weaknesses of using option models. Learn the vital part probability plays in estimating option prices. Discern the difference between historical volatility, future volatility, and implied volatility―and the function of each. Develop insight into why the perception of volatility is a more influential factor than actual market direction in option pricing. Become acquainted with the steps needed to analyze and trade options the way the pros do―by mastering key volatility techniques.

Natenberg thoroughly explains:

• The basis of implied volatility and how it is calculated
• The importance of dynamic hedging through delta-neutral positions
• The assumptions driving an options pricing model
• How to compare price to value
• How option trading decisions begin by comparing implied volatility to future volatility

With a complete online support manual, this comprehensive presentation is the perfect companion to Natenberg’s bestselling book Option Volatility and Pricing―or a great stand-alone primer for mastering this important trading principle.

About the Author

Sheldon Natenberg is one of the most sought-after speakers on the topic of option trading and volatility strategies. As a speaker and Co-Director of Education for Chicago Trading Company, Natenberg has helped many of the world’s top institutional investors, mutual fund managers, and brokerage analysts better understand volatility and utilize it in valuing and pricing options of all types. He is the author of Option Volatility and Pricing: Advanced Trading Strategies and Techniques, widely considered to be the finest book ever written on the subject. First published in 1988, and revised in 1994, the book established Sheldon as one of the world’s most acclaimed authorities on volatility and its impact on pricing and tracing strategies―a reputation he has continued to build ever since.