1. Auflage - Februar 2008
65,90 Euro
2008. 212 Seiten, Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0-470-51790-5
ISBN-13: 978-0-470-51790-1 - John Wiley & Sons

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Exotic options trading


Frans De Weert


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 formulae. The book limits the use of mathematics to explain exotic options from an economic and risk perspective by means of real life examples leading to a practical interpretation of the mathematical pricing formulae.


The book covers conventional options, digital options, barrier options, cliquets, quanto options, outperformance options and variance swaps, and explains difficult concepts in simple terms, with a practical approach that gives the reader a full understanding of every aspect of each exotic option. The book also discusses structured notes with exotic options embedded in them, such as reverse convertibles, callable and puttable reverse convertibles and autocallables and shows the rationale behind these structures and their associated risks.


For each exotic option, the author makes clear why there is an investor demand; explains where the risks lie and how this affects the actual pricing; shows how best to hedge any vega or gamma exposure embedded in the exotic option and discusses the skew exposure.


By explaining the practical implications for every exotic option and how it affects the price, in addition to the necessary mathematical derivations and tools for pricing exotic options, Exotic Options Trading removes the mystique surrounding exotic options in order to give the reader a full understanding of every aspect of each exotic option, creating a useable tool for dealing with exotic options in practice.

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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 Convertible

18 Asian Options

19 Quanto Options

20 Composite Options

21 Outperformance Options

22 Best of andWorst of Options

23 Variance Swaps

24 Dispersion

25 Engineering Financial Structures

Appendix A Variance of a Composite Option and Outperformance Option

Appendix B Replicating the Variance Swap

References

Index