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Record Nr.

UNINA9910145421303321

Autore

De Weert Frans

Titolo

Exotic options trading / / Frans de Weert

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, England ; ; Hoboken, NJ, : John Wiley & Sons, c2008

ISBN

1-119-20873-4

1-281-32069-2

9786611320690

0-470-75631-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (204 p.)

Collana

Wiley finance series

Disciplina

332.64/53

Soggetti

Exotic options (Finance)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Exotic Options Trading; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 Conventional Options, Forwards and Greeks; 3 Profit on Gamma and Relation to Theta; 4 Delta Cash and Gamma Cash; 5 Skew; 6 Simple Option Strategies; 7 Monte Carlo Processes; 8 Chooser Option; 9 Digital Options; 10 Barrier Options; 11 Forward Starting Options; 12 Ladder Options; 13 Lookback Options; 14 Cliquets; 15 Reverse Convertibles; 16 Autocallables; 17 Callable and Puttable Reverse Convertibles; 18 Asian Options; 19 Quanto Options; 20 Composite Options; 21 Outperformance Options; 22 Best of and Worst of Options

23 Variance Swaps24 Dispersion; 25 Engineering Financial Structures; Appendix A Variance of a Composite Option and Outperformance Option; Appendix B Replicating the Variance Swap; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Written by an experienced trader and consultant, Frans de Weert's Exotic Options Trading offers a risk-focused approach to the pricing of exotic options. By giving readers the necessary tools to understand exotic options, this book serves as a manual to equip the reader with the skills to price and risk manage the most common and the most complex exotic options.  De Weert begins by explaining the risks associated with trading an exotic option before dissecting these risks through a detailed analysis of the actual economics and Greeks rather than solely stating the mathematical formu