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Trading "Optures and Futions" to Combine the Best of Both Worlds

A complete course on trading with combinations of Options and Futures.

"With this course, Joe Ross boosts our awareness. There is a world of possibilities out there that many of us knew very little about prior to this book, which is a true masterpiece of trading intelligence. To be aware of other instruments and to know how and when to use and to combine them is essential knowledge every trader should make a sincere effort to acquire." ~ Manfred Wurr, Germany

In this book, Master Trader Joe Ross reveals the options "secret" and unmasks the mystery players in the options industry. It may, and should, change your entire career and outlook as a trader. If you have been a purchaser of options, it should change your entire mindset about buying options.

Over time, successful traders change strategies as the nature of the markets change. By learning about options and how you can use them, you will be finding it easier to trade and win. Options will simply become another tool to place in an ever-growing repertoire of implements you need to survive in today‘s markets.

This book is a complete course on how to put money in your pocket through trading with combinations of futures and options. The ideas and concepts revealed in the book work equally well with stock options. People think they risk less when trading stocks, as they rarely see a stock going down to zero, but actually they risk a lot without having hedged their position. When trading the right options or combination of options, you greatly reduce that risk. More than that, you have your risk defined before you enter the trade.

Highlights and Benefits

Combining Options and Futures, or Options and Stocks

Combining the best of both worlds is what makes you a winner, that's how we came up with Optures and Futions.  Joe Ross teaches you the strategies for trading virtually any situation you can encounter in the market. You will learn how to trade with much less capital, and thus dramatically increase the return on the capital you actually use. You will make your trading life a lot easier by trading with a lot less risk.

You will learn how to increase your probability of success, and you will actually know your risk before getting into the trade. You can forget about getting into a stock or a futures position with a 50% probability of success. You will learn how you can make money even if you are initially wrong about the direction of the market. Joe teaches you what to do with the trades that go your way, and how to defend the ones that do not.

The Options Mystique and the Secret that Makes Them Easy

Why mystique? Options books as a rule tend to be long on theory and short on practical application. They also tend to be either too elementary, including 50 pages of definitions, or too complicated, written for a PhD mathematician. Joe teaches you how to use options as a tool, not as a separate entity having its own jargon. You will be not an options trader, an equities trader, or a futures trader, but a complete trader who uses all markets in balance - and wins.

What secret? You are discouraged in many ways from becoming an options seller. Option selling is often presented as a complicated, mysterious, highly mathematical process reserved for only those with huge amounts of money who are able to take enormously dangerous risk.

Joe reveals to you not only the entire options secret, but also the identity of the mystery participants in the markets who at times manipulate the markets. It is their influence that causes the markets to become as frenzied and chaotic as they do. The mystery players also hold the options secret. They do their best to prevent you from ever learning what it is all about. Joe tells you all that they keep secret; the real story behind successful options trading, and why they want to lure you into subscribing to various magical advisory services.

Learning About the Markets and How to Use Options to Assist You in Trading

Most traders have no desire to be pure options traders, and the mathematics of options is mostly unnecessary information. Joe teaches you how you can benefit from options using the trading experience you have already attained. You will learn how to read a chart of the underlying futures or stock, and thus you will have a distinct advantage over options traders, the majority of whom are ignorant of how to read a simple bar chart.

Joe goes into detail, and shows you four simple patterns that are all you need to recognize in order to profitably trade options. As you progress through this course, you will learn other easily recognizable market phenomena, any one of which can make you a fortune by applying the correct options strategy at the correct time.

Getting Paid to Trade in the Business of Trading Options

Joe shows why the trading of options in combination with the underlying instrument is such a fantastic way to trade.  You will understand why traders of strictly futures or stocks for so many years suddenly want to trade options. The reasons are many and varied, but one of the most important is that markets have changed so drastically that trading purely futures or stocks has often gone beyond the risk tolerance of most traders.

It may shock you when Joe tells you how options enable you to use OPM (other people's money) in your trading. Can you imagine going into a bank or lending institution and telling them that you want to borrow money for purposes of trading in the markets? Yet with options, you don‘t even have to fill out a form in order to get tons of OPM with which to trade. The options markets allow you to be paid for trading, and to get your money up front. It's yours to keep forever.

Using Patterns for Success, and Taking What Market Gives You

One of the most difficult situations traders ever have to deal with is in trading inside a Trading Range. Joe teaches you two strategies to trade inside trading ranges that result in your survival in the marketplace while others lose fortunes. You will also learn strategies using a combination of the underlying instrument and options for trading the breakout of a trading range and strategies for trend following with 1-2-3s, Ledges, and Ross Hooks.

Nobody knows what a market will do next. Joe teaches you strategies to enter a market that is not trending and on which you have no opinion, or you are slightly bullish or bearish about. Then he shows you powerful strategies you can apply when a market is trending and you have no problem having an opinion.

"The best of the best" comes when Joe shows you four of his favorite strategies for trading Optures and Futions. These have all stood the test of time. If a trader did nothing more than wait for the right market conditions to apply these, patience would have its high reward.

Trading Optures and Futions reveals the innermost secrets of options traders

Implementing the Ross Hook into your Trading Style

"What you have in this book, dear reader, is a completely integrated trading methodology for the markets. Not one or two pieces of the puzzle, but rather the Big Picture. This allows the majority of you, for the first time, to become the artist rather than the canvas.  I firmly believe that Trading the Ross Hook is the best book ever written on the subject of profitably trading." ~ Dr. Bruce W. Roman

Using his discovery of the Ross Hook as the nucleus for his trading approach, Joe Ross goes beyond his admirable chart-reading abilities to include the pivotal, sine qua non of any successful business endeavor, money and trade management. In this book, Joe puts the light over the often-repeated, yet never operationally-defined trading axioms. Most notably these include, “Cut your losses and let your profits run,” and “Trade only with the trend.”

Trading The Ross Hook reveals Joe’s trading approach, which has enabled him to trade with very low risk, often much lower than you can imagine. It's the essence of almost 60 years of experience in trading. Most surprising of all this approach, which has kept him very safe in the markets, and has also been unusually profitable year in and year out.

It is with diligent study of the concepts presented in this book, that you will be able to incorporate what Joe shows you and make it a part of your way of trading, fitting in with your own style and comfort level.

Trading The Ross Hook Highlights and the Benefits You Receive:

Identifying the Ross Hook, the Trend and Congestions

You learn exactly what Ross Hooks are and see their origins and what causes them to occur. Joe shows you step-by-step how to correctly identify them as there are several “pointy” places on a chart, but not all of them are Ross Hooks. You will learn why Ross Hooks occur only in trending markets and also the conditions in which a Ross Hook is nullified.

Joe will give you the tools and the set of rules, according to which, you can clearly identify whether you are in a trend or in congestion. You will be amazed by these simple rules that have actually worked long before Joe started trading, and are still working today.

Trend Reversals

You will learn what the Reversal Ross Hooks are and how they can help you with spotting trend reversals. Joe has been using a method with great success for spotting a trend reversal by using additional filters. He will teach you the method in great detail, and you will learn the three conditions that must be met in order to enter a trade in the opposite direction of the initial trend.

The Traders Trick, Placing Objectives and Stop Loss Stops

In this module you will find out not only the purpose of The Traders Trick Entry and how you can benefit from it but also what made it so famous. The Traders Trick is designed to beat the insiders at their own game, or at the very least to create a level playing field on which you can trade. Trading is a business in which the more knowledgeable have the advantage over the less knowledgeable.

Joe will show you precisely how the insiders take advantage of what they know, but also the way in which you can profit from what they know, and do in the markets. Joe challenges you to think like you were a large operator, and you want to make the market move sufficiently for you to take a fat profit out of it. You will learn how markets are engineered by the market movers.

Once the market nears the high in an up-move, practically everyone wants to be in on this miraculous move, but this might be their most costly mistake. It is also very important to realize what may be happening when a market approaches a Ross Hook after having been in a congestion area for awhile. Joe will teach you the most insightful actions you can take in order to profit from both such situations. All these are illustrated with several charts as examples.

Filtering the Ross Hook in Several Ways

Joe teaches you how to get the overall picture of the markets. You will filter out many intraday trades simply because your view of the market shows you that there are better candidates for a winning trade somewhere else. The work necessary for conservative filtering is in itself a filter that you are going to incorporate in your trading style and routine.

Bottom line, you must select the best of the best trades in order to be successful in the markets. You will learn how to create your checklist that asks specific kinds of questions that prepares you for your trading day. Joe shows you various techniques for filtering, including usage of his famous Envelope but also some of the more popular studies like Stochastic and Bollinger Bands.

Money, Trade and Risk Management

Most traders lump together all these three notions as money management. They are actually separate entities and Joe will teach you how to treat them as such. You need to have a clear trade management strategy to know what kind of entry orders to use and how to place them. You will then learn how to place stop orders, both protective and objective, and your final exit order.

Joe will show you risk management strategies and tactics for covering costs, position sizing, and risk and loss minimization. You will know how to time your trade and what to expect from it. You will not lose more per contract than you can comfortably afford when trading the Ross Hook. You will be able to utilize the Ross Hook for day trading, position trading, swing trading or all three, regardless of the time frame you trade.

Words to the Wise

It is important to be realistic about your trading if you want to have a trading business. Joe emphasizes the importance of being properly capitalized and what exactly that means. Having access to intraday live data is also required but that is not all: you must also accommodate your time and your life style for trading.

Chapter after chapter, and example after example, show you how his students are successfully trading Ross hooks using simple studies that can be found in most trading software packages. Then you see how Joe personally trade hooks, using chart reading, without technical indicators or technical analysis of any kind.

This Book has Become a Classic in the Field of Trading

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"This is by far the best book I've read about trading. And I have many books by some of the best known, so-called "experts". The author takes you step by step through a trading methodology called the "Ross Hook". There is no "fluff". Only real life, usable information. I really learned a lot from reading the sections on trade management. What an eye opener! I highly recommend this book to anyone who is tired of all the hype and misleading advertising that is done in this industry, and wants a real trading system to work with. It is very refreshing to read a book on trading that actually shows you, in precise detail, how to trade. Forget about vague and general "rules". You will learn techniques that you can take to the bank!” ~ Mark H.

"The most comprehensive book Joe Ross has ever written. A completely integrated trading methodology for the markets, with the "Ross Hook" discovery as the nucleus for his approach. Gives the "Big Picture," not one or two pieces of the puzzle.” ~ windsorpublishing.com

"This book gives a detailed and accurate method to trade any market and if followed can save much heartache. No fancy mathematical confusion. Just read the pattern and practice seeing the patterns forming. After more than ten years of reading about trading Joe's method distills the very essence of chart reading for practical application." ~ J. Potts, Australia NSW

$175.00

Trading the Ross Hook Hardback Book

Dimensions:  H 11 1/4" x W 8 5/8"

365 pages and over 200 illustrations

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