How to Price and Trade Options: Identify, Analyze, and Execute the Best Trade Probabilities, + Website

About the Author

AL SHERBIN has been a professional options trader for more than 26 years without a single losing year. He has written trading models, risk-managed firms, run trading desks for large firms, and traded on the floor as well as over the computer.

Al is currently the managing member of Al on Options LLC, a consulting firm that utilizes his extensive background in financial markets, especially futures and options. Of note, Al:

• Has launched a coaching service to provide options trading knowledge one-on-one.
• Is fielding numerous requests for speaking engagements.
• Is teaching classes to Chinese investors preparing for the launch of options on their exchanges.

Before starting his own firm, Al was the director of research and an on-air personality for Tastytrade, Inc., an IP TV financial news network focusing on engaging self-directed investors in the science and art of options and futures trading. Al developed most of the content for the network, and in 14 months, wrote over 500 20-minute TV segments filled with technical, useable options and futures content. He was also seen on the air each week on two different shows.

Previously Al was an equity options trader at Peak6, where he built most of his own trading tools using a proprietary programming language. He was also Peak6’s Special Situations Committee chair, where he scrutinized the 2,000+ companies Peak6 traders dealt in—including simple scrip dividends, mergers, Dutch tenders, rights offerings, regular tenders, ...