Interest rate derivatives have become some of the most important derivative instruments, making up a higher proportion of financial market deals. Although financial markets are dominated by stock and stock indices in terms of activity, the bond market, and consequently the interest rate...

This article proposes to minimize risk and maximize return using various stop-loss values for fourteen major strategies involving options. The following eight ‘option combination strategies': “covered call, protective put, protective collar, straddle, strangle, butterfly, bear call spread...

Derivatives are financial instruments used to manage risk. They consist of contractual agreements that establish transactions to be executed at a future date. The value of such transactions derive from the price of underlying assets, such as bonds, stocks, commodities, or currencies, explaining...

This book introduces the “strike of default” (SOD) benchmark concept. The author determines the SOD through cross-sectional pricing between the credit market and the option market, considering the same underlying. The idea of the SOD is to combine the implied probability of default from both...

The weather derivatives market -- Introduction to Stochastic Calculus -- Handling the data -- Pricing approaches of temperature -- Modeling the daily average temperature -- Pricing temperature derivatives -- The use of meteorological forecasts -- The effects of the geographical and basis risk --...

Part I The Fundamentals of Derivative Security Pricing -- 1 The Stock Option Problem -- 2 Stochastic Processes for Asset Price Modelling -- 3 An Initial Attempt at Pricing an Option -- 4 The Stochastic Differential Equation -- 5 Manipulating Stochastic Differential Equations and Stochastic...