Thomsett's wordy and repetitive explanations of buying Puts and Calls and selling Covered Calls fills about 180 pages of his 210 - page text. He relegates the more interesting discussion of combined techniques to the last 20 pages. Here he gives you enough information to perk your interest, but not enough to motivate you to try these techniques. For example none of the figures in Chapter 9 suggest that you can loose money trading spreads, straddles and strangles
