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"Invaluable, very informative and well-structured." Hedge Fund Administrator, Cayman Islands
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Options
Duration: Half day
Course Overview
At the end of this course participants will be able to
- Explain how options trading works
- Explain how fund managers use different types of option contracts
- Describe the potential benefits and risks associated with trading options
- Calculate and account for option trades, exercise and expiry, realized & unrealized gains and losses
- Identify likely sources of valuation errors, the potential impact of those errors and how they can be prevented
Course Content
- Background
- Option types
- Exchange-traded options
- OTC options
- Bloomberg descriptions
- Broker statements
- OTC trade confirmations
- Option strategies
- Pricing exchange-traded options
- Pricing OTC options: sources, guidelines and regulation
- Gain/loss calculations
- Accounting for options
- Risk & control
Who should attend?
Staff with little or no experience of options but with some experience of equities or fixed income securities.
