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Derivatives
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4 months at 1 - 2 hours per week
english
Online - Self Paced
professional certificate
New York Institute of Finance
About Derivatives
NYIF's Derivatives Professional Certificate
Forwards and Futures
Swaps Fundamentals
FX Markets Derivatives, Cross Currency Swaps, and Credit Derivatives
Option Contracts, Participants, Strategies, and Pricing
Greeks, American Options and Volatility
Derivatives Professional Certificate Examination
Job Outlook
What You Will 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..