Options Trading For Dummies (For Dummies

by Joe Duarte

Looking for a new way to flex your investing muscle? Look no further! Options Trading For Dummies offers trusted guidance for anyone ready to jump into the versatile, rewarding world of stock options. This book breaks down the most common types of options contracts, helping you select the right strategy for your needs. Learn all about the risk-reward structure of options trading and reduce your risk through smart mixing and matching. Today's markets are more topsy turvy than ever before, but there is also more potential for everyday investors like you to profit, regardless of economic conditions. Options are great for broadening your retirement portfolio or earning a little extra scratch through shorter-term positions. Options Trading For Dummies is your plain-English resource for learning how! Listen to this book demystify the world of options contracts and how to trade them, including index, equity, and ETF options; use technical analysis to create a solid trading strategy that limits your risk; protect your assets; and learn about covered calls, butterfly positions, and other techniques that can enhance your gains. Thinking of trading options, but not sure where to start? This latest edition of Options Trading For Dummies provides you with step-by-step advice for boosting your income under today's market conditions.

Genres: Finance, Reference

416 pages, Paperback

Expected publication January 13, 2026

About the author

Dr. Joe Duarte has been analyzing, trading, and writing about the financial markets since 1990. His "This Week in the Money" column is widely followed at MoneyShow.com. He was biotech and healthcare analyst for Investing Daily.com - Strategic Technology Investing, Breakthrough Tech Profits, and the highly regarded Personal Finance newsletter. He is author of "Trading Options for Dummies," now in its third edition (August 28,2017).

He was an original CNBC Market Maven, has been quoted in Barron's, The Wall Street Journal and has written articles for Marketwatch.com and many other major publications. His books include "Trading Options for Dummies," "Trading Futures for Dummies," "The Everything Investing in Your 20s & 30s Book," and six others. Dr. Duarte is a former money manager and a professional investor trading for his own account.

Reviews

[Tandava Graham · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book rather stretches the “for dummies” concept, since it’s such a complicated subject. But there’s a lot of good info here, and I especially appreciated the continual context of the algorithms that control so much of the market.

[Oliver · Rating 3 out of 5]

Talks a lot about directional views on market, nit so structured about available option strategies