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Introduction
1. Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives  by John C. Hull (New Y ork: 
Prentice Hall, Eighth Edition, February 12, 2011), is considered the 
Bible of the academic study of options.
2. Option Volatility and Pricing by Sheldon Natenberg (New Y ork: 
McGraw-Hill, Updated and Expanded Edition, August 1, 1994), is 
considered the Bible of professional option traders.
3. The Greeks are measures of option sensitivity used by traders to man-
age risk in portfolios of options. They are named after the Greek 
symbols used in the Black-Scholes-Merton option pricing model.
4. “To invest successfully over a lifetime does not require a stratospheric 
IQ, unusual business insights, or inside information. What’s needed 
is a sound intellectual framework for making decisions and the abil-
ity to keep emotions from corroding that framework. ” Preface to The 
Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham (New Y ork: Collins Business, 
Revised Edition, February 21, 2006). 
Chapter 1
1. In other words, if all option contracts were specific and customized, 
every time you wanted to trade an option contract as an individual in-
vestor, you would have to first find a counterparty to take the other side 
of the trade and then do due diligence on the counterparty to make 
sure that he or she would be able to fulfill his or her side of the bargain. 
It is hard to imagine small individual investors being very interested in 
the logistical headaches that this process would entail!