This book examines the fundamentals of the debt securities, stock index, precious metals, and agricultural commodities markets in detail. It explores the intuitive explanation of option pricing, including the differences between pricing options on futures contracts, physical commodities, and securities, and offers a wide variety of trading strategies, risk management techniques, hedging applications, and speculation, T- bond trading, put and call strategies. Included are dozens of graphs and illustrations, and features a foreword by Richard Sandor, who has been called the father of financial futures.