For courses in derivatives, options and futures, financial engineering, financial mathematics, and risk management.
An Easily Understandable Introduction to Futures and Options Markets
Fundamentals of Futures and Options Markets covers much of the same material as Hull’s acclaimed title,
Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives . However, this text simplifies the language for a less mathematically sophisticated audience. The
Ninth Edition of
Fundamentals of Futures and Options Markets offers a wide audience a sound and easy-to-grasp introduction into financial mathematics.
John Hull is the Maple Financial Professor of Derivatives and Risk Management at the Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. He is an internationally recognized authority on derivatives and risk management with many publications in this area. His work has an applied focus. In 1999 he was voted Financial Engineer of the Year by the International Association of Financial Engineers. He has acted as consultant to many North American, Japanese, and European financial institutions. He has won many teaching awards, including University of Toronto’s prestigious Northrop Frye award.
1. Introduction
2. Futures markets and central counterparties
3. Hedging strategies using futures
4. Interest rates
5. Determination of forward and futures prices
6. Interest rate futures
7. Swaps
8. Securitization and the credit crisis of 2007
9. Mechanics of options markets
10. Properties of stock options
11. Trading strategies involving options
12. Introduction to binomial trees
13. Valuing stock options: the Black–Scholes–Merton model
14. Employee stock options
15. Options on stock indices and currencies
16. Futures options and Black’s model
17. The Greek letters
18. Binomial trees in practice
19. Volatility smiles
20. Value at risk and expected shortfall
21. Interest rate options
22. Exotic options and other nonstandard products
23. Credit derivatives
24. Weather, energy, and insurance derivatives
25. Derivatives mishaps and what we can learn from them
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