options and options trading: A Simplified Course that Takes You from Coin Tosses to Black-Scholes (2004)
Author: Robert W. Ward
part contents as follows:
Chapter 1: What a Derivative Is and What It Isn’t 3
Chapter 2: Binomials and Coin Tosses 31
Chapter 3: Pascal’s Triangle and the Binomial Theorem 47
Chapter 4: Distributions Are the Key—What Are Distributions? 59
Chapter 5: Probabilities, Odds, and Payoffs 73
Chapter 6: Writing Our First Option 85
Chapter 7: Sectors, Strike Prices, and Summation Signs 97
Chapter 8: The Fair Price of an Option 109
Chapter 9: Our First Stock Option: IBM 119
Chapter 10: Statistics: The 15-Minute Cram Course 135
Chapter 11: Dow Jones versus Coin Tosses 145
Chapter 12: Turning Spot Prices into Forward Prices: 159

这是一本形象的介绍期权的简单教程，通俗易懂。