Fifty Ways to Profit from Trading Futures and Options: Learn Proven Strategies, Techniques, and Applications

In Fifty Ways to Profit, Paul Cretien brings together powerful and innovative trading techniques covering the entire spectrum of futures, options, and options on equities. Building on solid theory, a decade of published work in Futures Magazine (now called Modern Trader), and his sophisticated LLP model, Cretien presents each approach in non-theoretical language, showing formula results without requiring you to "do the math" yourself.

Cretien offers methods that traders can use every day, and backs them with downloadable Excel-based software for options pricing, volatility analysis, and calculating T-note and eurodollar rates, yields, and prices. Each chapter contains basic pricing methods and definitions for readers with less experience, as well as carefully explained trading techniques that will be valuable to more experienced traders. Coverage includes:

• Delta neutral spreads and how to improve them
• Shadow pricing with currencies, metals, cattle, and hogs
• Trades between London and New York copper futures
• Eurodollar, swap futures, and Eurodollar calendar spreads
• Cattle, hog, and soybean crush trades for hedging or speculation
• Index ETFs and summed differences
• Buying out-of-the-money puts and calls to benefit from large price changes
• Forex calendar spreads
• Grain and cattle spreads
• Using variability in volatility to generate profitable low-risk trades
• Trading soft futures and options such as orange juice, coffee, cocoa, sugar, lumber, and cotton
• Analyzing construction resource futures/options via lumber, copper, and steel ETFs
• And much more