Financial Derivatives, Futures And Options - Applied Course

Learn Derivatives from Real Data on NSE; A Risk Management Approach; Covers Stock Futures & Options, Commodities

What you'll learn
Fetch and apply concepts directly on Derivatives Prices of companies like Reliance Industries, Infosys, HUL, IndusInd Bank, Nifty
Financial Derivatives through Real Market Data from NSE
Financial workings on derivatives and multitude of practice exercises
Practical approach to Forwards, Futures and Options
Extensive use of Microsoft Excel for enhanced learning
All excel workings, templates and models are downloadable resources
Over 6 hours of extensive coverage on topics Forwards, Futures and Options
Basics of Forwards, Futures and Options
Risk Management Approach to Derivatives
Understanding Hedging, Speculation and Arbitrage opportunities
F&O Strategies
Mark to Market in Derivatives
Live example of how to place orders in Futures and Options
Requirements
Finance Basics
Description
This course takes a Risk Management Approach to Derivatives. And, thus, not ideally suited if you want to explore only Futures/Options Trading & Profit Making. Although, under Options segment, the course covers & evaluates Options Trading Strategies to a fair extent. The course also involves lot of mathematics & number crunching - working on stock prices, derivatives prices, using MS Excel. This is a beginner to intermediate level course to the world of Derivatives. It can be used as a replacement or as an addendum to the College level courses on Derivatives.Here you will learn concepts through an application-oriented approach to derivatives. The course works on live as well as historical data available on Derivatives – extracted from National Stock Exchange or NSE website (Stock Futures, Stock Options, Index Futures, Index Options), and Multi Commodity Exchange or MCX website (for Commodity Futures contract). Various excel based exercises and models are used to enhance learning.The course also covers multiple Derivatives Trading Strategies. However, focus is more around the Derivatives concepts from Hedger’s viewpoint and less from Speculator’s viewpoint, although the course attempts to do justice with both.  Course Highlights:  Application based course with 6 hours of extensive coverage on Forwards, Futures and OptionsInsightful coverage of Derivatives using Real Market Data from NSE websiteFetch and apply concepts directly on Derivatives and Stock Prices of companies like Reliance Industries, Infosys, HUL, IndusInd Bank, NiftyThe course is full of financial workings on derivatives and include multitude of practice exercisesExtensive use of Microsoft Excel for enhanced learningAll excel workings, templates and models are downloadable resourcesCovers Derivatives on Stocks (Stock Options and Futures), Commodity Derivatives (Gold, Aluminium, Cotton) and many more from the real worldPreview videos to multiple chapters are available - enroll if you find value after watching previews 

Overview

Section 1: Derivatives Introduction

Lecture 1 Preview

Lecture 2 Derivatives Introduction

Section 2: Forwards Contracts

Lecture 3 Forwards Introduction

Lecture 4 Cotton Forwards Exercise

Lecture 5 Payoff for Hedger and Speculator

Lecture 6 Currency Forwards Exercise

Lecture 7 Long or Short Position

Lecture 8 Forwards Disadvantages

Section 3: Futures Basics and Futures Trading

Lecture 9 Futures Introduction

Lecture 10 Cotton Futures

Lecture 11 Aluminium Futures

Lecture 12 Gold Futures

Lecture 13 Stock Futures on NSE

Lecture 14 Futures Trading on ICICIDirect

Section 4: Futures Trading and Insights

Lecture 15 Trading Data and Payoff

Lecture 16 Principle of Convergence

Lecture 17 Squaring off Futures

Lecture 18 Rolling Over Hedge

Lecture 19 Mark to Market part 1

Lecture 20 Mark to Market part 2

Lecture 21 Take Home Exercise

Section 5: Futures Pricing and Arbitrage

Lecture 22 Futures Pricing Introduction

Lecture 23 Futures Pricing Formula

Lecture 24 Futures Pricing - Practice

Lecture 25 Futures Prices - Real Data

Lecture 26 Cost of Carry

Lecture 27 Basis Risk

Lecture 28 Futures Arbitrage - part 1

Lecture 29 Futures Arbitrage - part 2

Lecture 30 Forwards Pricing

Section 6: Options Basics

Lecture 31 Introduction to Options

Lecture 32 Options vs Futures

Lecture 33 Type of Options

Lecture 34 Options Exercise

Lecture 35 Options - Take Home Exercises

Lecture 36 Long vs Short Options

Section 7: Options Trading

Lecture 37 Options Elements

Lecture 38 Options on NSE

Lecture 39 Moneyness of Options

Lecture 40 Options Trading with ICICI Direct

Lecture 41 Entry and Exit - Options Contract

Lecture 42 Options Insights part 1

Lecture 43 Options Insights part 2

Section 8: Options Strategies

Lecture 44 Options Strategies

Lecture 45 Naked Call Options

Lecture 46 Naked Put Options

Lecture 47 Protective Put

Lecture 48 Covered Call

Lecture 49 Straddle

Lecture 50 Strangle

Section 9: Options Pricing Basics

Lecture 51 Options Pricing Introduction

Lecture 52 Put Call Parity

Lecture 53 Options Arbitrage

MBA Finance Students,Derivative Markets Enthusiasts