Making money with money -- On the trail of a method : risk, leverage, and markets -- Profitability 101 : expectation and options -- Just the facts, ma'am : avoiding moonshine, morons, and myths -- No hammer, no house : the tools of the trader -- Thomas More's revenge : a strategy for all seasons -- Apocalypse never : the uses of defense -- Don't just stand there, do something : the straddle -- Don't just do something, stand there : the strangle -- Hi-yo, Yogi! : riding the bear -- The king of strategies : the Martian ratio-spread -- Every once in a while : the picador -- Pay me after lunch : the endplay -- Filling in the cracks : ideas, understanding, and winning