Book description
An A to Z guide for understanding employee stock options (ESOs).
In Getting Started In Employee Stock Optionsauthors John
Olagues and John Summa provide a full understanding of ESOs and
demonstrate how to make the most of them. Page by page this author
team, a highly experienced options market maker and a professional
trader, share essential information that you're probably not hearing
anywhere else. This book contains the keys to managing and hedging ESO
opportunities in addition to important tax and valuation guidance
appropriate for the highest executives to the non-officer managers and
the newly arrived employee.
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Examines essential ESO issues, including tax consequences,
risks, and industry pitfalls
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Written by an experienced pair of stock option experts
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Enables employees and executives to make more informed
decisions regarding their stock options grants
Written in a straightforward and accessible style, Getting Started
In Employee Stock Options will help protect the value of your
options, help you avoid costly mistakes, and allow you to take
advantage of certain friendly tax rules. Some of the world's foremost
authorities on options have endorsed Getting Started in
Employee Stock Options.
John Olagues is owner of Truth in Options (www. optionsforemployees.
com). Formerly a member of the Pacific Stock and Options Exchange and
the Chicago Board Options Exchange, Olagues cofounded Options
Research, the first analytical service to provide theoretical options
values to market makers and the general public. For years he was
considered one of the leading options market makers in the world,
having created many of the trading and hedging strategies used today.
John Summa, PhD, is an author, economist, and founder of OptionsNerd.
com. In 2001, Summa coauthored the Wiley title, Options on Futures:
New Trading Strategies. A former fund manager, he recently launched
the ESO educational Web site, HedgeMyOptions. com.
