"Options are among today's most versatile and potentially rewarding investment vehicles. They can also be difficult to master. In this comprehensive guide to options, leading trading systems designer, market analyst, and trader Howard Simons gets you up and running with the knowledge and skills you need to exploit options' full potential as profit-making or hedging instruments."--BOOK JACKET. "The first part of the book is devoted to a practical exploration of the mechanics of options trading, market analysis, and risk management. Simons coaches you in the all-important principles of price theory, price analysis, and price insurance as they apply to both the commodities and financial markets."--BOOK JACKET. "In the second part of the book, Simons builds on the ideas expounded upon in the first, to develop an innovative new options trading methodology - the Dynamic Option Selection System. Based on an extremely accurate, wholly mechanical approach to predicting market movements across the dimensions of price, volatility, and investor expectations, the System succeeds by all but eliminating the need for subjective decision-making in option selection."--BOOK JACKET.