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An Option Greeks Primer

Building Intuition with Delta Hedging and Monte Carlo Simulation using Excel

Palgrave Macmillan

Part of the book series: Global Financial Markets (GFM)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxii
  2. Refresher

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Introduction: Context

      • Jawwad Ahmed Farid
      Pages 3-18
    3. Delta and Gamma

      • Jawwad Ahmed Farid
      Pages 19-58
  3. Delta Hedging

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 59-59
    2. Delta Hedging European Put Options

      • Jawwad Ahmed Farid
      Pages 71-78
    3. Calculating Cash P&L for a Call Option

      • Jawwad Ahmed Farid
      Pages 79-90
    4. Calculating Cash P&L for a Put Option

      • Jawwad Ahmed Farid
      Pages 91-97
  4. Building Surfaces in Excel

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 99-99
    2. Understanding Volatility

      • Jawwad Ahmed Farid
      Pages 101-108
    3. Building Volatility Surfaces

      • Jawwad Ahmed Farid
      Pages 109-124
    4. Forward Implied Volatilities

      • Jawwad Ahmed Farid
      Pages 125-129
  5. Hedging Higher-Order Greeks

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 131-131
    2. Vega, Volga and Vanna

      • Jawwad Ahmed Farid
      Pages 133-145
    3. Hedging Higher-Order Greeks

      • Jawwad Ahmed Farid
      Pages 146-157
    4. Reviewing the Solver Solution

      • Jawwad Ahmed Farid
      Pages 158-178
  6. Applications

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 179-179
    2. Rebalancing, Implied Vol and Rho

      • Jawwad Ahmed Farid
      Pages 181-201
    3. Understanding Theta

      • Jawwad Ahmed Farid
      Pages 202-209

About this book

This book provides a hands-on, practical guide to understanding derivatives pricing. Aimed at the less quantitative practitioner, it provides a balanced account of options, Greeks and hedging techniques avoiding the complicated mathematics inherent to many texts, and with a focus on modelling, market practice and intuition.

About the author

Jawwad Farid has been building and implementing risk models since August 1998. Working with clients on four continents, he helps bankers, board members and regulators take a market-relevant approach to risk management. He is the founder of Alchemy Technologies, a risk consulting practice, and writes about risk and treasury products at FinanceTrainingCourse.com.

Jawwad's expertise includes investment management, product development and risk models. He has advised multiple due diligence teams on risk assessment in banking and insurance sectors, set up FX and commodity hedging desks, built fair value models for illiquid securities for FAS 157 disclosures, and helped a US$3 billion life insurance fund on allocation and bid patterns for 20- and 30-year bonds, ALM mismatch and fixed income strategy.

He has worked with the securities and banking regulator and the Asian Development Bank on assessing the state of the corporate bond market as well as issuing valuation opinions on cross currency swaps, participating forwards and contingent liabilities for Exchange Guarantee Funds in the region.

Jawwad is a Fellow Society of Actuaries (Schaumburg, IL), holds an MBA from Columbia Business School, and is a computer science graduate (NUCES FAST). He is an adjunct Faculty member at the SP Jain Global School of Management in Dubai and Singapore, where he teaches Risk Management, Derivative Pricing, Project Finance and Entrepreneurship.

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eBook USD 49.99
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Softcover Book USD 64.99
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  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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Hardcover Book USD 89.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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