Securities And Futures

This is a reprint of a previously published work. It deals with how emerging technologies have affected financial markets and their regualtion.

Single stock futures are quickly becoming among the market's most important trading vehicles, and Russell Wasendorf's Peregrine Financial Group accounts for 20 to 50 percent of daily U.S. trading volume! In The Complete Guide to Single Stock Futures, Wasendorf provides traders with: Analyses of the latest rules and regulations How to apply technical and fundamental analysis • Best exchanges for trading Essential valuation techniques • And much more

From arbitrage to zero-coupon bonds, this all-inclusive guide explains the fundamentals of investments and their markets. Covers how broker/dealer firms function, option trading, technical and fundamental futures, exchange and over-the-counter transactions, and more.

Co-authored by Mark Powers who has been called one of the ``founding fathers of financial futures,'' this revised text contains more material than the previous edition. Along with expanded coverage of fixed income securities and foreign currency markets, it includes new chapters on portfolio insurance; interest rate and foreign currency swaps; options on fixed income securities and other topics of current interest.

Provides a logical, unifying approach to the valuation and hedging of all derivative securities, not just financial futures and stock options.

Derivatives are everywhere in the modern world and it is important for everyone in banking, investment and finance to have a good understanding of the subject. Derivatives Demystified provides a step-by-step guide to the subject, enabling the reader to have a solid, working understanding of key derivative products. Adopting a highly accessible approach, the author explains derivative products in straightforward terms and without the complex mathematics that underlie the subject, focusing on practical applications, case studies and examples of how the products are used to solve real-world problems. Derivatives Demystified follows a sequence that is designed to show that, although there are many applications of derivatives, there are only a small number of basic building blocks, namely forwards and futures, swaps and options. The book shows how each building block is applied to different markets and to the solution of various risk management and trading problems. This new edition will be fully revised to reflect the many changes the derivatives markets have seen over the last three years. New material will include a comprehensive history of derivatives, leading up to their use and abuse in the current credit crisis. It will also feature new chapters on regulation and control of derivatives, commodity derivatives, credit derivatives and structured products and new derivative markets including inflation linked and insurance linked products. Derivatives Demystified is essential reading for everyone who operates in the financial markets or within the corporate environment who requires a good understanding of these important financial instruments.

This guide to the securities markets has helped thousands of financial professionals as well as individual investors, both experienced and novice, invest in the securities markets with confidence. Now completely revised and expanded to reflect the evolving investment realities of a new millennium, this invaluable guide covers all of your investment options. Stuart Veale offers concise summaries of money market instruments, U.S. treasury securities, bonds, mortgage-backed securities, and stocks, plus the latest information or derivative instruments such as futures contracts, swap contracts, options contracts, and security indices. Stocks, Bonds, Options, Futures compares various methods of analyzing stocks—top down, bottom up, technical, and walk around—and gives you all the tools you need to create a balanced portfolio that maximizes returns and minimizes risk. Filled with informative charts and graphics, plus website listings for additional research and technical tools, Stocks, Bonds, Options, Futures, Second Edition is your guide to the radically changed world of 21st-century securities.

Derivatives markets are an important and growing segment of financial markets and play an important role in the management of risk. This invaluable set of lecture notes is meant to be used in conjunction with a standard textbook on derivatives in an advanced undergraduate or MBA elective course on futures, forwards, swaps, options, corporate securities, and credit default swaps. It covers the foundations of derivatives pricing in arbitrage-free markets, develops the methodology of risk-neutral valuation, and discusses hedging and the management of risk. Contents: Introduction to Forward and Futures ContractsPricing Forwards and FuturesInterest Rate and Currency SwapsIntroduction to Options and No-Arbitrage RestrictionsTrading Strategies and Slope and Convexity RestrictionsOptimal Early Exercise of American OptionsBinomial Option PricingUsing the Binomial ModelThe Black–Scholes–Merton Option Pricing FormulaOptions on FuturesRisk ManagementEmpirical Evidence and FixesCorporate Securities and Credit Risk Readership: Advanced undergraduates and postgraduate students of finance along with MBA students taking an elective on derivatives and risk management in finance. Key Features:Develops the theory of arbitrage-free derivatives pricingCovers a broad set of derivatives including futures, forwards, swaps, options, corporate securities, and credit default swapsDiscusses hedging and risk managementKeywords:Futures;Forwards;Options;Corporate Securities;Derivatives;Hedging;Risk Management