resources
Options Resources
There are more and more sites appearing with information on options.
Contact:
- Option Strategy Guide - courtesy of Numa web; highly recommended.
- AAD Soft's Options Mini-Course - an excellent free tutorial on options; very highly recommended.
- Stewart-Peterson Options Course - a very good 48-lesson course with an emphasis on agricultural hedging.
- "Options 101" - good basic information from Orion Futures.
- Options & Option Strategies - from "The Pit Master."
- Basics of Trading Options - from Pacific Rim.
- "A Brief Introduction to Hedging with Futures & Options" - a well-written article by Mae Siffin of the OFOR at the U. of IL.
- OptionsAnalysis.com - This is a terrific web site for tracking and analyzing both commodity and stock options. There are updated charts of most of the major commodities.
- PM Publishing.com - Another great free site with quotes, volatility analysis, and charts of commodity options around the world.
- The Option Trader - a lot of very good stuff from Joey Kendrick, a full-time options trader on a farm in Montevallo, Alabama.
- CBOE's Introduction to Stock Options - stock options only, but good general information.
- CBOE's Option Guide - this is the classic "Characteristics and Risks of Standardized Options" for stock options from the Chicago Board of Options Exchange.