How to Trade Options

Options are not a casino. They are a craft.

Most beginners meet options through a rocket emoji and lose money by Friday. How to Trade Options starts at the real beginning: what a call and a put actually are, why premiums melt, what the fear meter does to prices, and only then, the three income strategies working investors quietly use every month: covered calls, cash-secured puts and the Wheel.

Inside, in plain language with 20 color diagrams:

• Calls and puts explained in one sentence (a right without an obligation)
• Time decay: why an option is a melting ice cube, and who collects the drips
• Implied volatility and IV crush: how you can be right and still lose
• The Greeks as a simple three-dial dashboard
• Covered calls: collecting rent on shares you already own
• Cash-secured puts: getting paid to wait for your price
• The Wheel strategy, your first defined-risk spread, and the 8 rules of survival
• A full covered-call year, honestly told: the rent AND the cost of the cap

Worked examples with real numbers in every chapter, a strategy-selector flowchart, and not a single promise of easy money. The print edition adds 16 chapter quizzes and a 30-day paper-trading journal.

Book 2 of the Stock Market Made Simple series. New to charts? Book 1, How to Read Stock Charts, is the perfect companion.