The Market Taker's Edge Insider Strategies from the Options Trading Floor

Chapter 1: My First Year: What I learned, and How I learned It;

Chapter 2: Hoping to Never Have to Get a Real Job;

Chapter 3: There are Options and There are Options;

Chapter 4: Market Mechanics and Entering Trades: Know Your Enemy;

Chapter 5: The Shift of Power: How Decimals, Multiple Listing and Payment for Orderflow Changed the Rules of the Game;

Chapter 6: Expiration Trading: Cranking Up the Gain;

Chapter 7: The Symbiotic Relationship of the Makers and the Takers;

Chapter 8: Volatility on Every Trade;

Chapter 9: Volatility and Straddles: The Market Maker Trade;

Chapter 10: Arbitrage on the Trading Floor: How Small Profits Add Up to Big Dollars;

Chapter 11: Synthetics: The Floor Trader's Indifference Between Puts and Calls;

Chapter 12: Looking Over the Hedges;

Chapter 13: Monitoring an Option Portfolio;

Chapter 14: Couting Your Chickens After They've Been Hatched;

Chapter 15: Sleeping with the Television On;

Chapter 16: The Waiting Game: Why (sometimes) Being a Floor Trader Can Be Really Boring Sometimes; Chapter 17;

Chapter 18;

Chapter 19;

Chapter 20: Sayings, Stories and Adventures From the Epicenter of the Options Universe

Dan Passarelli has spent over twelve years on the trading floor (both the Chicago Board of Trade and the Chicago Board Options Exchange). The author knows how professional traders think because he was one for many years. He can teach the lessons for those with a thirst for knowledge. He can tell the real life (and sometimes stranger than fiction stories). Before being a trader this author was one of those people fascinated by the shouting traders in the colored jackets. After leaving the floor, Passarelli has given hundreds of presentations to people with that same fervor for this profession. Passarelli understands what people want to read and why. Passarelli is well known in the industry and has many public outlets in which to discuss the book. He had a short-lived radio show on Chicago's WJJG 1530 AM. He was featured in a snippet about the CBOE's Options Institute on CLTV. He has written and continues to write numerous articles in such popular trade magazines as SFO Magazine, Futures Magazine, Active Trader, Option Trader and was recently featured in an interview for Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities. He has many webcasts and podcasts on high-traffic websites such as CBOE.com and 888OPTIONS.com. His podcasts for the Options Industry Council have been seen by several hundred thousand people and are still very popular. Dan continues to be in the public eye giving online and in-person seminars on a regular basis.