The following topics make this book special or unique (roughly in order of increasing complexity):

• It contains the basic intuition you need to trade options for the first time, or interview for an options job.Honest advice about trading: there is no simple way to beat the markets, but if you have skill this advice can help make you money, and if you have no skill but still choose to trade, this advice can reduce your losses.
• Full immersion treatment of transactions costs (T-costs).
• Lessons from trading stated in simple terms.
• Stylized facts about the markets (e.g., how to profit from reversals, when are T-costs highest/lowest during the trading day, implications of the market for corporate control, etc.).
• How to apply (European-style) Black-Scholes pricing to the trading of (American-style) options.
• Leverage through margin trading compared to leverage through options.
• Black-Scholes option pricing code for the HP17B, HP19B, and HP12C.
• Two downloadable spreadsheets. The first allows the user to forecast T-costs for option positions using simple models.
• The second allows the user to explore option sensitivities including the Greeks.
• Practitioner Bloomberg Terminal screenshots to aid learning.
• Simple discussion of continuously-compounded returns.
• Introduction to 'paratrading' (trading stocks side-by-side with options to generate additional profit).
• Unique 'regrets' treatment of early exercise decisions and trade-offs for American-style calls and puts.
• Unique discussion of put-call parity and option pricing. -How to calculate Black-Scholes in your head in 10 seconds (also appearing in Heard on The Street: Quantitative Questions from Wall Street Job Interviews).
• Special attention to arithmetic Brownian motion with general pricing formulae and comparisons to Bachelier (1900) and Black-Scholes (1972, 1973).
• Careful attention to the impact of dividends in analytical American option pricing.
• Dimensional analysis and the adequation formula (relating FX call and FX put prices through transformed Black-Scholes formulae).
• Intuitive review of risk-neutral pricing/probabilities and how and why these are related to physical pricing/probabilities.
• Careful distinction between the early Merton (non-risk-neutral) hedging-type argument and later Cox-Ross/Harrison-Kreps risk-neutral pricing.
• Simple discussion of Monte-Carlo methods in science and option pricing.
• Simple interpretations of the Black-Scholes formula and PDE and implications for trading.
• Careful discussion of conditional probabilities as they relate to Black-Scholes.
• Intuitive treatment of high-level topics e.g., bond-numeraire interpretation of Black-Scholes (where N(d2) is P*(ITM)) versus the stock-numeraire interpretation (where N(d1) is P**(ITM)).
• Introduction and discussion of the risk-neutral probability that a European-style call or put option is ever in the money during its life.

[Interviews With Top University Teachers: How to Get Happier Students, Better Teaching Evaluations, and More Time for Research; Timothy Falcon Crack]Interviews With Top University Teachers is a 400-page pocket-sized (4.37in x 7in) book due out at the end of August 2021. My goal is to give university teachers happier students, better teaching evaluations, and teaching efficiencies that create more time for research. To meet this goal, I conducted interviews with a select sample of outstanding university teachers in the U.S., U.K., Australia, Israel and New Zealand. I interwove their advice with reflections upon my own 30-year award-winning university teaching career in the U.S. and in New Zealand. The advice is accompanied by a discussion of practical attitudes towards teaching and teaching motivation, and stories (and even some horror stories) that serve as parables. The majority of the advice is based on face-to-face instruction in the classroom, but much of it carries over to remote/online teaching. Much of the advice is 'purely mechanical,' in the sense that you don't need any special skills or abilities to implement it. Teachers can use this book to improve their job performance and job satisfaction, and to increase the likelihood of promotion and career success. Administrators can give this book to new university teachers to help build quality teaching from Day 1.

[24 Essential Tips for Selling Print Replica eBooks on Amazon: How to Capture New Readers by Turning Your Physical Book into an eBook; Timothy Falcon Crack] This eBooklet gives more than two-dozen essential tips that I have accumulated after several years of turning my self-published physical print books into 'print replica' eBooks that I sell on Amazon.com.

A print replica eBook uses a simple pdf-formatted text block. (The text block is the inside pages of a book, as distinct from its cover.) Most software packages can output pdf files. Using pdf files means that there is no messing around with unfamiliar EPUB or MOBI formatting, HTML code, or reflowable eBooks (i.e., where the book reorganizes itself when the reader resizes the text). Nevertheless, some of my advice still applies to these other eBook formats.

This is not a 'How to Write an eBook' book. Nor is it a 'How to Market Your Book/eBook on Amazon' book. There are already at least 50 books available for sale on Amazon.com with each of these titles (or almost exactly these titles). Instead, I assume that you have already written all the content for your book, and that you also have a cover image prepared, and that you can handle eBook marketing without my help. My only goal is to help guide you through the process of getting set up to sell 'print replica' eBooks on Amazon.com.

Although I assume that you want to turn physical print books into eBooks, this is not a prerequisite. For example, there is no physical print edition of this eBook, but I followed the advice given here to set it up and sell it on Amazon. So, you can follow my eBook advice whether you sell physical books or not.

Why sell your book as an eBook? At first I worried that an eBook would simply cannibalize some of my physical book sales (and at a lower dollar royalty per book). To the contrary, the count of new readers attracted to my eBooks more than compensates for any cannibalization of physical book sales. Some readers always prefer a physical book, some readers always prefer an eBook, and some readers who would usually prefer a physical book may be in such a hurry (or they may simply be so tempted) that they will buy the eBook because it gives them immediate delivery. So, if you are not selling your books as eBooks, then you are missing out on customers and the royalty income they provide.

In the introduction I compare and contrast physical book selling with eBook selling. Then I discuss Amazon print replica eBooks. In subsequent chapters I discuss issues you have control over, issues you have limited control over, and issues you have no control over (but which you need to know about anyway). I finish the book by discussing software bugs and other issues that you need to be aware of.

It was written especially for people who have tried to get to a healthy weight already and have failed, perhaps more than once. This book is about being committed and making powerful choices.

You will not find a picture of a half-dressed impossibly fit young man or woman on the front cover of this book. Few, if any, overweight people can achieve that level of fitness, and books with images like that are misleading for most readers. Instead, this book is full of hard truths and successful techniques for achieving a healthy weight. The author's personal experiences mean that he is unafraid to write openly and honestly about being fat and unhealthy and how to fight these successfully---even in the face of a genetic predisposition towards obesity. This book is supportive, but in an honest tough-love kind of way.

The book contains references to and discussion of more than 40 recent research studies. These include medical journal articles from top journals, respected government research, articles from top university researchers, and other related research. Although many of the articles are written at an advanced level, the discussion of them in the book is simplified to make them accessible to all.

Some people will find this book offensive because the author calls a spade a spade. He referred to himself as 'fat' when he was fat, and argues that being open and honest about it was liberating. If you cannot label yourself as 'fat,' because you view this term as offensive, rather than a simple statement of scientific fact, then don’t buy this book.

Some people will find this book hubristic because the author gives multiple examples of making powerful choices in his own life with successful outcomes, and because he presents techniques to get healthy that worked for him. If you easily mistake advice from successful people for hubris, then don’t buy this book.

If, however, you have reached a stage in your life where you are ready to be honest about being fat, and you are ready to accept advice from someone who has been in your shoes and in your head, then this may be the book to change your life.