Includes index.

My first year in the options business : what I learned and how I learned it -- The difference between me and you -- Spreading risk -- An option by any other name -- The zen of trading and hoping to never get a real job -- Know your enemy : market makers and the market -- Using what you know about market makers to your advantage: Part 1 -- Using what you know about market makers to your advantage: Part 2 -- Using what you know about market makers to your advantage: Part 3 -- The shift of power: how decimalization, multiple listing and technology changed the rules of the game -- Synthetics and the professional traders' indifference between puts and calls -- Expiration trading : cranking up the gain -- Living on the edge : volatility on every trade -- Volatility and straddles : the market maker trade -- Arbitrage and niche trading : how small profits add up to big money -- Monitoring options portfolio risk -- The symbiotic relationship between the makers and the takers -- Playing the numbers : interpreting options data -- Stories, sayings and adventures from the epicenter of the options universe.