- ISBN: 9781405150491 | 1405150491
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 2/27/2007
James A. Overdahl is Chief Economist at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission in Washington, D.C., and has held senior positions at the Risk Analysis Division at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and at the Securities and Exchange Commission. He has been an adjunct professor of finance at Georgetown University, the University of Maryland, George Washington University, and Johns Hopkins University.
Preface | p. xvi |
Acknowledgments | p. xvii |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Overview | p. 1 |
Derivatives defined | p. 1 |
Applications of financial derivatives | p. 7 |
The concept of arbitrage | p. 8 |
The organization of the text | p. 9 |
Exercises | p. 11 |
Notes | p. 12 |
Futures markets | p. 13 |
Overview | p. 13 |
Futures markets | p. 13 |
Exchanges and types of futures | p. 27 |
Purposes of futures markets | p. 31 |
Regulation of futures markets | p. 34 |
Taxation of futures trading | p. 42 |
Brokers, advisors, and commodity fund managers | p. 42 |
The changing environment of futures markets | p. 45 |
Market manipulation | p. 58 |
Conclusion | p. 65 |
Exercises | p. 65 |
Notes | p. 66 |
Futures prices | p. 69 |
Overview | p. 69 |
Reading futures prices | p. 69 |
The basis and spreads | p. 75 |
Models of futures prices | p. 80 |
Futures prices and expectations | p. 98 |
Futures prices and risk aversion | p. 100 |
Characteristics of futures prices | p. 104 |
Conclusion | p. 111 |
Exercises | p. 112 |
Notes | p. 113 |
Using futures markets | p. 116 |
Overview | p. 116 |
Price discovery | p. 116 |
Speculation | p. 119 |
Speculative profits | p. 128 |
Hedging | p. 133 |
Conclusion | p. 147 |
Exercises | p. 148 |
Notes | p. 148 |
Interest rate futures: an introduction | p. 152 |
Overview | p. 152 |
Short-maturity interest rate futures contracts | p. 152 |
Longer-maturity interest rate futures | p. 158 |
The pricing of interest rate futures contracts | p. 166 |
Speculating with interest rate futures | p. 175 |
Hedging with interest rate futures | p. 178 |
Conclusion | p. 185 |
Exercises | p. 185 |
Notes | p. 187 |
Interest rate futures: refinements | p. 188 |
Overview | p. 188 |
The T-bond futures contract in detail | p. 188 |
Seller's options in T-bond futures | p. 198 |
The efficiency of the interest rate futures market | p. 202 |
Applications: Eurodollar and T-bill futures | p. 209 |
Hedging with T-bond futures | p. 219 |
Conclusion | p. 237 |
Exercises | p. 238 |
Notes | p. 239 |
Security futures products: an introduction | p. 241 |
Overview | p. 241 |
The indexes | p. 241 |
Stock index futures contracts | p. 245 |
Stock index futures prices | p. 247 |
Index arbitrage and program trading | p. 252 |
Speculating with stock index futures | p. 256 |
Single stock futures | p. 259 |
Risk management with security futures products | p. 261 |
Conclusion | p. 264 |
Exercises | p. 265 |
Notes | p. 266 |
Security futures products: refinements | p. 268 |
Overview | p. 268 |
Stock index futures prices | p. 268 |
Real-world program trading | p. 272 |
Hedging with stock index futures | p. 276 |
Asset allocation | p. 282 |
Hedge fund uses of stock index futures | p. 284 |
Portfolio insurance | p. 285 |
Index futures and stock market volatility | p. 288 |
Index futures and stock market crashes | p. 290 |
Conclusion | p. 295 |
Exercises | p. 295 |
Notes | p. 296 |
Foreign exchange futures | p. 298 |
Overview | p. 298 |
Price quotations | p. 298 |
Geographic and cross-rate arbitrage | p. 300 |
Forward and futures market characteristics | p. 303 |
The European Monetary Union | p. 305 |
Determinants of foreign exchange rates | p. 306 |
Forward and futures prices for foreign exchange | p. 309 |
More futures price parity relationships | p. 309 |
Foreign exchange forecasting accuracy | p. 316 |
The efficiency of foreign exchange futures markets | p. 317 |
Speculation in foreign exchange futures | p. 319 |
Hedging with foreign exchange futures | p. 322 |
Conclusion | p. 326 |
Exercises | p. 327 |
Notes | p. 329 |
The options market | p. 330 |
Overview | p. 330 |
An option example | p. 330 |
Moneyness | p. 331 |
American and European options | p. 332 |
Why trade options? | p. 332 |
The option contract | p. 333 |
The options marketplace | p. 333 |
Option trading procedures | p. 342 |
The clearinghouse | p. 346 |
Margins | p. 347 |
Commissions | p. 349 |
Taxation | p. 350 |
Conclusion | p. 353 |
Exercises | p. 353 |
Notes | p. 355 |
Option payoffs and option strategies | p. 357 |
Overview | p. 357 |
Stocks and bonds | p. 357 |
Option notation | p. 360 |
European and American option values at expiration | p. 361 |
Buy or sell a call option | p. 361 |
Call options at expiration and arbitrage | p. 365 |
Buy or sell a put option | p. 367 |
Moneyness | p. 369 |
Option combinations | p. 370 |
Combining options with bonds and stocks | p. 389 |
Conclusion | p. 401 |
Exercises | p. 401 |
Notes | p. 404 |
Bounds on option prices | p. 406 |
Overview | p. 406 |
The boundary space for call and put options | p. 406 |
Relationships between call option prices | p. 409 |
Relationships between put option prices | p. 416 |
Option prices and the interest rate | p. 423 |
Option prices and stock price movements | p. 425 |
Option prices and the riskiness of stocks | p. 429 |
Conclusion | p. 431 |
Exercises | p. 431 |
Notes | p. 433 |
European option pricing | p. 434 |
Overview | p. 434 |
The single-period binomial model | p. 434 |
The multi-period binomial model | p. 434 |
Stock price movements | p. 437 |
The binomial approach to the Black-Scholes model | p. 447 |
The Black-Scholes option pricing model | p. 449 |
Inputs for the Black-Scholes model | p. 451 |
European options and dividends | p. 456 |
Tests of the option pricing model | p. 465 |
Conclusion | p. 468 |
Exercises | p. 469 |
Notes | p. 473 |
Option sensitivities and option hedging | p. 476 |
Overview | p. 476 |
Option sensitivities in the Merton and Black-Scholes models | p. 476 |
Delta | p. 480 |
Theta | p. 485 |
Vega | p. 487 |
Rho | p. 488 |
Gamma | p. 490 |
Creating neutral portfolios | p. 493 |
Option sensitivities and option trading strategies | p. 495 |
Conclusion | p. 505 |
Exercises | p. 505 |
Note | p. 511 |
American option pricing | p. 512 |
Overview | p. 512 |
American versus European options | p. 512 |
American versus European calls | p. 514 |
Dividend capture strategies | p. 515 |
Pseudo-American call option pricing | p. 517 |
Exact American call option pricing | p. 518 |
Analytic approximations of American option prices | p. 523 |
The binomial model and American option prices | p. 526 |
Conclusion | p. 537 |
Exercises | p. 537 |
Notes | p. 539 |
Options on stock indexes, foreign currency, and futures | p. 540 |
Overview | p. 540 |
European option pricing | p. 540 |
Option sensitivities | p. 550 |
Pricing American options | p. 551 |
Conclusion | p. 564 |
Exercises | p. 564 |
Notes | p. 565 |
The options approach to corporate securities | p. 566 |
Overview | p. 566 |
Equity and a pure discount bond | p. 566 |
Senior and subordinated debt | p. 570 |
Callable bonds | p. 571 |
Convertible bonds | p. 573 |
Warrants | p. 574 |
Conclusion | p. 576 |
Exercises | p. 576 |
Notes | p. 578 |
Exotic options | p. 579 |
Overview | p. 579 |
Assumptions of the analysis and the pricing environment | p. 579 |
Forward-start options | p. 580 |
Compound options | p. 581 |
Chooser options | p. 584 |
Barrier options | p. 587 |
Binary options | p. 594 |
Lookback options | p. 601 |
Average price options | p. 605 |
Exchange options | p. 606 |
Rainbow options | p. 609 |
Conclusion | p. 615 |
Exercises | p. 616 |
Notes | p. 616 |
Interest rate options | p. 618 |
Overview | p. 618 |
Interest rate options: markets and instruments | p. 618 |
The term structure of interest rates | p. 623 |
Stripped Treasury securities and forward rate agreements (FRAs) | p. 628 |
The option-adjusted spread (OAS) | p. 631 |
The Black model | p. 634 |
Applications of the Black model | p. 636 |
Forward put-call parity | p. 647 |
Caps, floors, and collars | p. 651 |
Conclusion | p. 656 |
Exercises | p. 656 |
Notes | p. 658 |
The swaps market: an introduction | p. 659 |
Overview | p. 659 |
Swaps | p. 659 |
The swaps market | p. 660 |
Plain vanilla swaps | p. 662 |
Motivations for swaps | p. 668 |
Swap facilitators | p. 673 |
Pricing of swaps | p. 676 |
Swap portfolios | p. 679 |
Beyond plain vanilla swaps | p. 683 |
Commodity swaps | p. 687 |
Equity swaps | p. 689 |
Credit swaps | p. 690 |
Swaptions | p. 692 |
Conclusion | p. 696 |
Exercises | p. 696 |
Notes | p. 698 |
Swaps: economic analysis and pricing | p. 700 |
Overview | p. 700 |
The economic analysis of swaps | p. 700 |
Interest rate swap pricing | p. 723 |
Currency swap pricing | p. 729 |
Swap counterparty credit risk | p. 734 |
Conclusion | p. 735 |
Exercises | p. 735 |
Notes | p. 740 |
Swaps: applications | p. 741 |
Overview | p. 741 |
The parallel loan-how swaps began | p. 741 |
Creating synthetic securities with swaps | p. 743 |
The all-in cost | p. 746 |
The B. F. Goodrich - Rabobank interest rate swap | p. 748 |
The duration of interest rate swaps | p. 752 |
Interest rate immunization with swaps | p. 753 |
Structured notes | p. 760 |
Pricing flavored interest rate and currency swaps | p. 772 |
Equity swap pricing and applications | p. 782 |
Swaption pricing and applications | p. 795 |
Day count conventions | p. 798 |
Conclusion | p. 798 |
Exercises | p. 798 |
Notes | p. 805 |
A summary of accounting rules for derivative instruments | p. 806 |
The cumulative distribution function for the standard normal random variable | p. 811 |
Index | p. 812 |
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