Options and options trading : a simplified course that takes you from coin tosses to Black-Scholes

Options and options trading A simplified course that takes you from coin tosses to Black-Scholes

Robert W. Ward

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Subjects
Options (Finance)
Derivative securities.
Published
New York : McGraw-Hill c2004.
Language
English
Main Author
Robert W. Ward (-)
Physical Description
xv, 413 p. ; 24 cm
Bibliography
Includes index.
ISBN
9780071432092
  • Foreword
  • Preface: On Taking Risk and Blowing Up
  • Part 1. The Basics
  • Chapter 1. What a Derivative Is and What It Isn't
  • Chapter 2. Binomials and Coin Tosses
  • Chapter 3. Pascal's Triangle and the Binomial Theorem
  • Chapter 4. Distributions Are the Key--What Are Distributions?
  • Chapter 5. Probabilities, Odds, and Payoffs
  • Chapter 6. Writing Our First Option
  • Chapter 7. Sectors, Strike Prices, and Summation Signs
  • Chapter 8. The Fair Price of an Option
  • Chapter 9. Our First Stock Option: IBM
  • Chapter 10. Statistics: The 15-Minute Cram Course
  • Chapter 11. Dow Jones versus Coin Tosses
  • Chapter 12. Turning Spot Prices into Forward Prices: S x e[superscript RT]
  • Part 2. The Formula
  • Chapter 13. Skeleton for an Option Formula
  • Chapter 14. Getting Comfortable with the Black-Scholes Formula
  • Chapter 15. Introducing Volatility and SKIT-V
  • Chapter 16. Pros and Cons of the Black-Scholes Formula
  • Part 3. Trading
  • Chapter 17. A Primer on Risk and Hedging
  • Chapter 18. Option Risk: Finding It and Hedging It
  • Chapter 19. How Traders Make Money (Customers)
  • Chapter 20. How to Convert Puts and Calls: CPL.PCS
  • Chapter 21. The Best Option Strategies
  • Chapter 22. Market Insights and Edges
  • Answer Key
  • Index

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