Getting Started in Options

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The bestselling guide to understanding options. Getting Started in Options, Fourth Edition, includes such new material as references to online sites relevant to options investors; information on how to pick broker firms; more detailed explanations of risk; bailout points; how to pick stocks for options investing; and how put options can enhance portfolio returns. This Fourth Edition also contains new examples, updated charts, and timely additions to reflect important changes in the market. show more Michael C. Thomsett (Port Townsend, WA) is a financial writer with many books and hundreds of arti. show less

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Michael C. Thomsett is the author, coauthor or compiler of many books including topical dictionaries, collections of quotations and history books. He lives in Spring Hill, Tennessee.

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Canonical title: Getting Started in Options
Original publication date: 2003

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