{"product_id":"pricing-and-hedging-financial-derivatives-an-introductory-guide-for-practitioners-9781119953715","title":"Pricing and Hedging Financial Derivatives  An","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe only guide focusing entirely on practical approaches to pricing and hedging derivatives    One valuable lesson of the financial crisis was that derivatives and risk practitioners don't really understand the products they're dealing with.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePreface ix\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAcknowledgements xi\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1 An Introduction to the Major Asset Classes 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.1 Equities 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.2 Commodities 5\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.3 Fixed Income 12\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.4 Foreign Exchange 15\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSummary 17\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 Derivatives: Forwards, Futures and Swaps 19\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.1 Derivatives 19\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.2 Forward Contracts 20\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.3 Futures Contracts 24\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.4 Calculating Implied Forward Prices and Valuing Existing Forward Contracts 26\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.5 Pricing Futures Contracts 34\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.6 Swaps 35\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSummary 49\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 Derivatives: Options and Related Strategies 51\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.1 Call Options 51\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.2 Put Options 55\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.3 Boundary Conditions for Call and Put Options Prices 58\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.4 Put–Call Parity 61\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.5 Swaptions 63\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.6 Options Strategies 64\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSummary 76\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4 Binomial Option Pricing 77\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.1 One-Period Binomial Tree: Replication Approach 77\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.2 Risk-Neutral Valuation 83\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.3 Two-Period Binomial Tree: Valuing Back Down the Tree 85\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.4 The Binomial Tree: A Generalization 89\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.5 Early Exercise and American Options 90\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.6 Volatility Calibration 90\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSummary 92\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5 The Fundamentals of Option Pricing 93\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.1 Intrinsic Value and Time Value of an Option 93\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.2 What is Volatility and Why Does it Matter? 95\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.3 Measurement of Realized Volatility and Correlation 97\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.4 Option Pricing in the Black–Scholes Framework 99\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.5 The Option Delta and the Replication of the Option Payoff 100\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.6 Option Replication 102\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.7 Option Replication, Risk-Neutral Valuation and Delta Hedging Revisited 104\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.8 Options on Dividend Paying Assets 106\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.9 Options on Futures: The Black Model 107\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.10 Monte Carlo Pricing 108\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.11 Other Pricing Techniques 112\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.12 Pricing Techniques Summary 113\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.13 The Excel Spreadsheet “Option Replication” 114\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSummary 117\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6 Implied Volatility and the Greeks 121\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.1 Implied Volatility 121\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.2 The Greeks 123\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.3 Delta and its Dynamics 123\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.4 Gamma and its Dynamics 127\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.5 Vega and its Dynamics 132\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.6 Theta and its Dynamics 136\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.7 Rho 142\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.8 Option Trading 143\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.9 Some Additional Remarks (in Q\u0026amp;A Format) 146\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.10 An Example of the Behaviour of Implied Volatility: EUR\/USD Rate and S\u0026amp;P 500 in 2010–2012 147\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSummary 148\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7 Volatility Smile and the Greeks of Option Strategies 151\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.1 The Volatility Smile – Why is the Implied Volatility Not Flat Across Different Strikes? 151\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.2 The “Sticky Delta” and “Sticky Strike” Approaches to Describing Volatility Smile 153\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.3 The Volatility Term Structure – Why is the Implied Volatility Not Flat Across Different Expiries? 155\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.4 The Volatility Surface – Combining Smile and Term Structure 156\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.5 Analysing the Greeks of Common Option Strategies 158\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.6 Some Additional Remarks on Straddles, Risk Reversals and Butterflies 170\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.7 Vega Hedging is Not Just Simply Offsetting Overall Vega Exposure 171\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.8 Hedging Volatility Risk: A Brief Introduction of the Vanna–Volga Approach 172\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.9 The Volatility Smile – One Step Further 173\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.10 Pricing Exotic Options 178\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.11 Different Types of Volatility 179\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSummary 184\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e8 Exotic Derivatives 185\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.1 Exotic Derivatives with Fixed Payoffs 185\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.2 Other Common Exotic Derivatives 188\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.3 European Digital Options: Pricing and Greeks 191\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.4 Other Exotic Options: Pricing and Greeks 200\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSummary 208\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e9 Multi-Asset Derivatives 209\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.1 Basket Options 209\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.2 Best-of and Worst-of Options 211\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.3 Quanto Derivatives 222\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.4 “Compo” Derivatives 225\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSummary 227\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e10 Structured Products 229\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.1 Definition 229\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.2 Common Features 229\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.3 Principal Protection 230\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.4 The Benefit to the Issuer 231\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.5 Redemption Amounts and Participation 232\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.6 Principal at Risk: Embedding a Short Option 234\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.7 More Complicated Payoffs 235\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.8 Auto-Callable Note: Pricing and Risk Profile 238\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.9 One Step Forward: The Worst-of Digital Note 240\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.10 A Real-Life Example of Structured Product 241\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.11 Liquidity and Exchange-Traded Notes (ETNs) 242\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSummary 243\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIndex 245\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley \u0026 Sons Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49407193940311,"sku":"9781119953715","price":59.85,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781119953715.jpg?v=1730498508","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/pricing-and-hedging-financial-derivatives-an-introductory-guide-for-practitioners-9781119953715","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}