Michael Thomsett: 37 books

Why covered calls are so popular, how they limit your risks, and how to use them successfully.   Most traders who consider options have heard of the popular strategy, the covered call. This is a very safe options strategy because it produces a profit better than just owning stock in most possible...

An up-to-date primer on the energy markets: everything you must know before you trade.   There is no singular energy market. There are many different versions and subsets of energy: Any trader who wants to invest has many choices. The best one depends on acceptable risk levels, perceptions of...

Options: a key component of today’s most powerful swing trading strategies.   Options, those high-risk, short-lived, and speculative instruments, can be used as a valuable alternative in swing trading strategies designed to move in and out of stock positions based on very short-term price movement....

Contrary to popular opinion, there are low-risk short option strategies--and here’s how to make them work for you.   Is there such a thing as a low-risk short option strategy? Many traders and investors do not think so, but in fact there is one way to put together a short spread that will not...

How to uncover the crucial, high-value gaps that basic technical analysis won’t find.   Gaps are significant signals. However, you might be missing some extremely important gaps, those that are not visible without deeper analysis of the price pattern. Obvious gaps show up with clear spaces in...

Discover four simple ways to uncover exceptional value in equities with strong fundamentals.   Short-term price movement in the market is always chaotic, and, as confusing as this is, it can become your greatest advantage. First, pick companies and stocks based on sound fundamental analysis. Second,...

An “installment strategy” in its most basic form, combines two options, one long-term position and one short-term. This strategy is designed as a conservative, no-cost method to either eliminate risk for future trading when stock is owned; or to fix the price for a future purchase of the underlying...

The basics behind the Six Sigma quality control technique Six Sigma is designed to achieve excellence in customer service and measure deviation from the ideal. It provides a process for placing value on the intangible nature of quality control. The underlying theories of Six Sigma are highly...

Although the Catholic Church today tolerates beliefs and religious practices at odds with its own, for several centuries it enforced its doctrine with threats, excommunication, banishment, imprisonment, seizure of lands, torture, and death. This book explains the origins of the Roman Catholic Inquisition...