Options Trading & Derivatives Made Simple

Mastering risk to build wealth: that's the challenge of this book. In Risque dompté, fortune dérivée, Fatih AK offers a comprehensive and accessible guide to derivatives, options strategies and risk management as applied to contemporary investment.

Designed for all profiles, from the motivated beginner to the experienced professional, this book takes you step by step through the understanding and responsible use of derivatives. Using concrete examples, pedagogical diagrams and exercis-es inspired by international best practice, the author makes clear and actionable concepts often considered complex, such as calls, puts, spreads, greeks, implied volatilities and valuation models like Black-Scholes or binomial.

Through this book, you will learn to:

✓ Understand how derivatives work, their economic usefulness and their contractual structure.
✓ Master directional, neutral and hedging strategies based on options
✓ Integrate volatility, whether historical or implicit, into your decision-making process
✓ Accurately assess the risk and expected return of a position using greeks
✓ Use derivatives to protect a portfolio, optimize per-formance or implement asymmetrical strategies
✓ Simulate the value of options using modern tools such as the Monte Carlo method
✓ Read market psychology through volumes, the VIX or the impact of major events

This book stands out for its rigorous progression, its meticulous pedagogy and its ambition: to finally make accessible to as many people as possible a world long reserved for the initiated. By combining fundamental, technical and probabilistic approaches, it provides a solid foundation for enlightened risk management, essential in a world of uncertainty.