Create Your Own Hedge Fund

Discover a practical trading strategy that combines options and ETFs. Create Your Own Hedge Fund explains how exchange-traded funds can be used in conjunction with an options strategy to attain steady growth. Beginning with a tutorial on options and ETFs, the book goes on to describe both investment approaches in great detail providing you with a trading strategy that generates higher returns than buy-and-hold investing -- and allows you to reduce risk by adopting a hedging strategy. Filled with in-depth insights and expert advice, this book is intended for you if you're a sophisticated individual investor or a professional investor, trader, or other money manager looking to update your arsenal of investment tools. Order your copy today!

Acknowledgments. Preface. PART I: Outperforming the Market. CHAPTER 1: Modern Portfolio Theory. CHAPTER 2: Can You Beat the Market? Should You Try? CHAPTER 3: Hedge Funds. PART II: Exchange Traded Funds. CHAPTER 4: A Brief History of Mutual Funds and Exchange Traded Funds. CHAPTER 5: Traditional Mutual Funds. CHAPTER 6: Exchange Traded Funds. PART III: Options. CHAPTER 7: What Is an Option and How Does an Option Work? CHAPTER 8: More Options Basics. CHAPTER 9: Why Investors Buy and Sell Options. CHAPTER 10: Option Strategies You Can Use to Make Money: Covered Call Writing. CHAPTER 11: Option Strategies You Can Use to Make Money: Uncovered Put Writing. CHAPTER 12: Historical Data: BuyWrite Index and Volatility Index. PART IV: Putting It All Together. CHAPTER 13: Building a Portfolio. CHAPTER 14: Finding Your Style: Choosing an Option to Write. CHAPTER 15: Covered Call Writing in Action: A Year of Trading. CHAPTER 16: Uncovered Put Writing in Action. CHAPTER 17: Odds and Ends and Conclusion. Notes. Glossary. Index.