Description
Book SynopsisEVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT DERIVATIVES
All About Derivatives, Second Edition, presents the complex subject of financial derivatives with a clarity and coherence you wonât find in other books. Using real-world examples and simple language, it lucidly illustrates what derivatives are and why they are so powerful. This second edition of All About Derivatives provides a rock-solid foundation on:
- The most common contracts available to you in today's market
- Key concepts such as cost of carry, settlement, valuation, and payoff
- Proven methods for establishing fair value
- How leverage can work for you--and against you
- The various derivative contracts traded today, including forwards, futures, swaps, and options
- Pricing methods and mathematics for determining fair value
- Hedging strategies for managing and reducing different types of risk
INCLUDES A BRAND-NEW CHAPTER ON THE ROLEDERIVATIVES PLAYED IN THE 2008 FINANCIAL MELTDOWN
Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1 Derivatives in a Nutshell
Chapter 2 The Forward Contract
Chapter 3 The Futures Contract
Chapter 4 The Swap Contract
Chapter 5 The Option Contract
Chapter 6 Credit Derivatives
Chapter 7 Using Derivatives to Manage Risk
Chapter 8 Pricing Forwards and Futures
Chapter 9 Pricing Swaps
Chapter 10 Pricing Options
Chapter 11 Hedging a Derivatives Position
Chapter 12 Derivatives and the 2008 Financial Meltdown
Epilogue Are Derivatives Any Good?
Appendix A All About Interest
Appendix B Swap Conventions
Appendix C More Binomial Option Pricing
Bibliography
Index
Footnotes
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