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Options Trading: The Hidden Reality

Reading List, Intermediate. See what your position really is. Read it before module 7.

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Juri von Randow
Oct 31, 2026
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Cartoon: the mentor inspects an open red book through a large magnifying glass while a student points at the page, titled Cottle, Hidden Reality.

Cottle was a floor trader, and this is how the floor sees a position: not as the legs you bought, but as the simplest set of pieces they add up to. An iron condor is also two credit spreads, or a strangle with wings, or a butterfly plus a vertical. See all three, and you know which piece to fix.

Who it is for: Options Trading: The Hidden Reality by Charles M. Cottle, 2006. Level Intermediate, After you have held a few spreads that went wrong.. Time to read About 14 hours, Eleven chapters, mostly pictures. Slow pictures.. Math: Arithmetic, No formulas at all. Position tables and risk graphs instead.. Best for Repairs, You want to see what your position really is before you touch it..

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Below the line, for Pro and Elite Trader members: the chapters we use, the five ideas I took from it, the chapters to skip, and the module it prepares. Elite Traders read the book, then work that module with me one-on-one, on their own positions.

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