The Complete Guide to Spread Trading - Hardcover

by Keith Schap (Author)

Spread trading, a low-risk, high-profit technique, involves buying a contract in one market while selling a different contract in another market to profit from the imbalance between those markets. The Complete Guide to Spread Trading covers the step-by-step mechanics for successfully executing more than 25 calendar, intermarket, interest rate, volatility, and stock index spreads. It explains both basic and advanced spread techniques and strategies, revealing market situations where spreads are most appropriate as well as clarifying what it means to buy or sell a spread, and more.

Author Biography

Keith Schap is a former senior writer for the Chicago Board of Trade and senior editor with Futures. The coauthor of Seven Indicators That Move the Markets, Schap has contributed hundreds of articles to Futures, Treasury and Risk Management, Derivative Strategies, and other trade journals.