The book is a step-by-step guide to derivative products. By distilling the complex mathematics and theory that underlie the subject, Chisholm explains derivative products in straightforward terms, focusing on applications and intuitive explanations wherever possible. Case studies and examples of how the products are used to solve real-world problems, as well as an extensive glossary and material on the latest derivative products make this book a must have for anyone working with derivative products.

A broad-based introduction to financial derivatives which covers both the technical aspects of these instruments and the markets in which they are traded, and the underlying concepts. End-of-chapter assessment material provides students with the opportunity to further apply and critically evaluate the key principles. The book should be useful in undergraduate and postgraduate introductory modules in financial derivatives (core) or financial markets, institutions and investments (supplementary), and in professional body courses in financial deri…

How do you bring real world scenarios into your course? Or would you like to? Business Snapshots (about 60 in total, found in almost all chapters)—Carefully thought out and integrated into the main material in chapters. Describe real world situations and interesting issues that are highlighted to illustrate points being made throughout the text. Completely revised chapters on credit risk and credit derivatives (Ch 20 and 21)—Reflects market developments. Makes these chapters in this edition more straightforward and easier to teach. Ope…

This book explains both the basic and advanced principles of pricing swaps and their hedge applications. Chapters describe pricing methods, swaps valuation, dealing with interest rate exposure, developing trading strategies and their application in portfolio management. Lucid clearly structured with extensive use of worked examples.

The growth of the credit derviatives market has produced a liquid market in credit default swaps across the credit curve, and this liquidity has led many investors to access both the credit derivative and cash bond markets to meet their investment requirements.This book investigates the close relationship between the synthetic and cash markets in credit, which manifests itself in the credit default swap basis. Choudhry covers the factors that drive the basis, implications for market participants, the CDS index basis, and trading the basis.Credi…

Alex Brummer traces the course of the recent financial crisis from its origins in the U.S. subprime market to its explosion onto the international scene, and reveals the potentially disastrous path down which we’re all being led.

The only complete guide to an increasingly popular approach to futures tradingThis book outlines a highly successful alternative approach to trading commodity futures, specially tailored to today's low-priced commodities markets. Unlike technical analysis, which uses statistics to inform trading decisions, scale trading is a form of fundamental analysis in which a trader slowly buys prices as they reach bottom and sells them as they climb back up. Hal Masover describes scaling techniques that work in every commodity market, including metals, en…