About this Professional Certificate
Develop a comprehensive, practical understanding of derivative instruments including market conventions, contract specifications, valuation, trading strategies and the regulation of derivatives markets.
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What you'll learn
- Learn to price forward and futures contracts.
- Be familiar with futures contract specifications and market conventions.
- Understand the valuation of a variety of swap contracts.
- Learn how to extract credit risk measures from CDS spreads and asset swap spreads.
- Understand common trading strategies using futures, forwards, swaps and options.
- Develop a conceptual understanding of the Black-Scholes-Merton option valuation model.
- Use option sensitivities (the Greeks) to determine the impact of changing model parameters on option prices.
- Understand basic hedge accounting using futures, forwards, swaps and options.
| From | New York Institute of Finance via edX |
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| Hours | 19 |
| Instructor | Jack Farmer |
| Language | English |
| Subjects | Business |
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Courses in this Professional Certificate
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Forwards and Futures play an extremely important role in the current world of finance and investment. Long-term investors, speculators, and hedgers extensively use them. They... edX | New York Institute of Finance |
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Derivatives Professional Certificate Examination Ready to earn a professional certificate and stand out in your field? If you’ve gained a clear, comprehensive understanding of the courses, your next step is to complete the... edX | New York Institute of Finance |
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Swaps are the most prevalent derivatives used by corporations, and financial institutions to exchange a set of future cash flows with another set. The market participants carry... edX | New York Institute of Finance |
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FX Markets Derivatives, Cross Currency Swaps, and Credit Derivatives Learn about Credit Default Swaps (CDS), and the basic information such as bankruptcy; restructuring; hazard rate; survival probability; credit spread; and other factors used in... edX | New York Institute of Finance |
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Options Contracts, Participants, Strategies, and Pricing In this course, we'll address the basics of option pricing. We'll provide a short review of discounting and future value and also discuss the Law of No-arbitrage, along with... edX | New York Institute of Finance |
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Greeks, American Options and Volatility In this course, three methods are presented for pricing an option. The first method is an analytical one whereby the Black Scholes formula is used to price a call or a put. The... edX | New York Institute of Finance |
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| From | New York Institute of Finance via edX |
|---|---|
| Hours | 19 |
| Instructor | Jack Farmer |
| Language | English |
| Subjects | Business |
Careers
An overview of related careers and their average salaries in the US. Bars indicate income percentile (33rd - 99th).
Specifications Technician/Coordinator/Admin $48k
Architectural Specifications Rep | Lighting $48k
Specifications Analyst thru Volt Workforce Solutions $63k
Specifications Project Manager $109k
Senior Specifications Project Manager $132k
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