September 5th, 2010 
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Unleash the power of Long-Term Equity Anticipation Securities (LEAPS) for increasing gains, limiting losses, and protecting your trading and investing profits. The 108 powerful strategies lined out in this comprehensible guide by author Michael C. Thomsett help you both to advance your investing and trading techniques and to achieve your financial goals. Real-world examples and graphic illustrations point out the main keys of this book. Not only are LEAPS a low-risk alternative to buying stock, they are also a great way to maximize your capital.
The LEAPS Strategist: 108 Proven Strategies for Increasing Investment & Trading Profits
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Only one word adequately describes this book:- “EXCELLENT!”
The author not only describes, in detail, and, with numerous examples for clarity, all the advantages of using LEAPS in your investment program, but he also goes into details of the negative aspects, or the downside, of each of these strategies.
Unlike many other books on the subject of options, Mr. Thomsett discusses their use from the perspective of the small investor (using 100 share lots) and not, as in various other publications, institutionally sized lots of 40-50 options (which is 4-5000 shares each time).
In order to obtain the full benefit from this book though, you need to be already conversant with trading options.
A good entry point for this would be a previous book of his:- “Getting Started in Options”, or, even better, my personal favorite:- “Using Options to Buy Stocks” by Dennis Eisen.
Perhaps the only fault with the book is the point that it really should have been published in hard cover, thereby better allowing it to stand up to the heavy use that it will undoubtedly receive.
Rating: 5 / 5
The book shows great strategys for long term option investing. Makes it easy and simple. Anyone who knows options will like Leaps because the strategys are much more flexible. Highly recommend the book as user friendly and useful. I am going to use a lot of the things like using Leaps instead of jsut buying stocks. Good stuff!
Rating: 5 / 5
The 108 powerful strategies lined out in this comprehensible guide by author Michael C. Thomsett help you both to advance your investing and trading techniques and to achieve your financial goals. Real-world examples and graphic illustrations point out the main keys of this book. Not only are LEAPS a low-risk alternative to buying stock, they are also a great way to maximize your capital.
Rating: 1 / 5
I recently decided that LEAPS options offer some advantages that I ought to be taking advantage of in the future. I have a cursory knowledge of LEAPS and have employed them in the past, but I decided a refresher course was in order both to reacquaint me with basic LEAPS concepts and to inform me of any relevant info about current LEAPS offerings. THE LEAPS STRATEGIST failed on both counts.
This book was written for readers who already understand LEAPS fundamentals and are interested in their use in, I will say, sophisticated applications that far exceed my objectives. I have no reason to believe the book would not be perfectly suitable for those readers. But the book simply does not provide what I was seeking.
Rating: 1 / 5
While this book provides a lot of strategies, a lot of the strategies are just very close variations of other strategies. The strategies overlap significantly. The book seems to repeat itself a lot. I believe it contains a few errors and makes some major oversimplifications. For those reasons, this book is not for the novice investor.
It’s worth the price, because you will find something in this book that will make money for you.
Rating: 3 / 5