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OPTION STRATEGIES AND VALUATION

 

EXAM REVIEW / MIDTERM EXAM

 

FUTURES, FORWARDS, SWAPS, CDS AND FRA's

EQUITY
VALUATION

   

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      Chapter 13

Introduction & Structure of Derivatives Markets 

Chapter 13 

Intro to Options (Calls, Puts and Straddles) 

Chapter 13 

Basic Option Strategies (Protective Puts, Covered Calls and Collars) 

Chapter 13 

Advanced Option Strategies (Bull, Bear and Butterfly Spreads) 

Chapter 13 

Intro to Binomial Pricing Model Leveraged (6 step) and Probability Methods

Chapter 13

 BOPM (Continue) and Black-Scholes-Merton Model 

     

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GOING OVER MIDTERM EXAM 

 

Chapter 14

Forwards & Futures

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Chapters 14

Credit Swaps, TRS
and CDS

Chapters 14 and Instructor's Notes

Interest Rate Forwards & FRAs

Instructor's Notes:
 
 Equity Valuations using Options approach
 

EXAM REVIEW

 

Assigned Lectures

Introduction to Derivatives

Options: Concepts, Strategy and Valuations

Options: Concepts, Strategy and Valuations

Options: Concepts, Strategy and Valuations

Options: Concepts, Strategy and Valuations

Options: Concepts, Strategy and Valuations

Article on Black Scholes

Bitcoin Assume Option Valuation

Horse Racing & Options

CFA BOPM

 

EXAM REVIEW

Midterm Exam Review

Options Formula

Options Practice Sheet with Answers

     

Futures, Forwards & Swaps

Futures, Forwards & Swaps

Futures, Forwards & Swaps

Valuation of IP and Startups using Black Scholes

Case Study: Metanext Tech Start-up Valuation

Final Exam Review

 

Zoom Recordings

 

Zoom Recording 1/21

Zoom Recording 1/28

                           

Assigned Spreadsheets

 

Excel Template: Options: Concepts, Strategy and Valuations

Basic Option Strategies (Protective Puts, Covered Calls, Collars)

Advanced Strategies (Bull, Bear, Butterfly Spreads)

Bionomial Option Pricing Model Method 1 (6-step Method)

BOPM (single and 2-period) Method 2

Black Scholes Option Model

 

Options Formula

Options Practice Sheet with Answers

     

Futures & Forwards

Hedging Strategy using Futures

Chapter 14 - Futures, Forwards & Swaps

SWAPS

Total Return Swaps (TRA)

 

SaaS IP Case Study - OPM Valuation

Distress Company Valuation using Black Scholes - Spirit Air Bankruptcy

   

EXAMS

               

MidTerm Exam taken Online via blackboard

             

Final Exam

Homework Assignments

     

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Reading Assignments

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 An Analytical Approach to Investments Finance & Credit (1st Edition)

C.Droussiotis,  Cognella Publishing 

To Purchase Textbook

ARTICLE: GameStop's Gargantuan Gamma Squeeze

GameStop Charts

Greeks in Finance

SIFMA Insights: US Listed Options Primer

Starbucks Stock Graph

Trading and valuing Options

WSJ: FB says Apple's Privacy Changes Hurt Digital Ad Measurement

CNBC Option Segment on FB's sadden drop in stock

Options Page on FB

FB PUT Option Spreadsheet

Total Return Swap gone wrong - Article

         

WSJ Futures Prices

Yahoo Finance Futures Prices

LIBOR MARKETS Interest Rates

Managing Negative Interest Rates

Total Return Swap gone wrong - Article

The Big Short Clip on CDS

     

Practice Sheets

 

Options Practice Sheet with Answers

   

The Greeks in Options Explain

                       
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