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Financial Markets Instruments I - JEM035
Title: Financial Markets Instruments I
Guaranteed by: Institute of Economic Studies (23-IES)
Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
Actual: from 2016 to 2020
Semester: winter
E-Credits: 6
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/2, Ex [HT]
Capacity: 185 / 185 (185)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: English
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Additional information: http://samba.fsv.cuni.cz/~dedek
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
Guarantor: prof. Ing. Oldřich Dědek, CSc.
Teacher(s): PhDr. František Čech, Ph.D.
prof. Ing. Oldřich Dědek, CSc.
PhDr. Ondřej Filip
Class: Courses for incoming students
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download FI01(Futures Contracts).doc Lecture notes prof. Ing. Oldřich Dědek, CSc.
download FI02(Option Contracts).doc Lecture notes prof. Ing. Oldřich Dědek, CSc.
download L10(EssentialsOfFuturesTrading).pptx Presentation prof. Ing. Oldřich Dědek, CSc.
download L11(ExamplesOfFinancialFutures).pptx Presentation prof. Ing. Oldřich Dědek, CSc.
download L12(CostOfCarryModel).pptx Presentation prof. Ing. Oldřich Dědek, CSc.
download L13(SpeculationWithFutures).pptx Presentation prof. Ing. Oldřich Dědek, CSc.
download L14(ArbitrageWithFutures).pptx Presentation prof. Ing. Oldřich Dědek, CSc.
download L15(HedgingWithFutures).pptx Presentation prof. Ing. Oldřich Dědek, CSc.
download L16(EssentialsOfOptionContracts).pptx Presentation prof. Ing. Oldřich Dědek, CSc.
download L17(OptionCombinations).pptx Presentation prof. Ing. Oldřich Dědek, CSc.
download L18(PricingOfOptionContracts).pptx Presentation prof. Ing. Oldřich Dědek, CSc.
download L19(SensitivityAnalysis).pptx Presentation prof. Ing. Oldřich Dědek, CSc.
download L20(TradingStrategiesWithOptions).pptx Presentation prof. Ing. Oldřich Dědek, CSc.
download L21(ExoticOptions).pptx Presentation prof. Ing. Oldřich Dědek, CSc.
Annotation -
Last update: Mgr. Michaela Čuprová (06.05.2020)
The objective of the course is to provide a general knowledge about theoretical background and practical functioning of selected segments of financial markets, namely the futures and option markets. The stress is laid primarily on understanding the role of these instruments in managing financial risks and in speculative, hedging and arbitrage trading. The summer semester offers the continuation of the course called Financial Markets Instruments II.
Literature -
Last update: Mgr. Michaela Čuprová (06.05.2020)

Basic recommended textbooks:
Blake D.: Financial Market Analysis, McGraw-Hill, 1990. (second edition is available)
Hull J.: Options, Futures, and Other Derivative Securities, Prentice-Hall International, 1993.

Other recommended textbooks:
Colburn J. T.: Trading in Options on Futures, New York Institute of Finance, 1990.
Dothan M. U.: Prices in Financial Markets, Oxford University Press, 1990.
Hull J.: Introduction to Futures and Options Markets, Prentice-Hall International, 1991.

Set of lecturer's handouts

Prof. Dedek's teaching materials can be also found on his personal website http://dedeklegacy.cz/index.html

Syllabus -
Last update: Mgr. Michaela Čuprová (06.05.2020)

Part I: Futures contracts

1. Basic features of forward and futures trading: distinction between forward and futures contracts, practical arrangements (clearing house, operation of margins, marking to market, delivery process, trading limits), basis (contango, backwardation).

2. Examples of financial futures contracts: stock index futures, currency futures, short-term interest rate futures, long-term interest rate futures (price factor, CTD bond).

3. Model cost-of-carry: derivation of basic formula, valuation of futures contracts, fair pricing of futures contracts (covered and uncovered interest rate parity, implied forward rates).

4. Speculative trading strategies with futures: features of speculative trade (working of leverage), open position trading (long and short positions), spread trading (intra-contract spread, butterfly spread), basis trading.

5. Arbitrage trading strategies with futures: features of arbitrage trade, box arbitrage, conversion arbitrage.

6. Hedging trading strategies with futures: typology of hedging, hedging using spot transactions, basic elements of futures hedging (hedge ratio, hedge efficiency), basis risk, interpolative hedge, minimum variance hedge ratio, practical examples o hedging with futures.

Part II: Options

6. Mechanics of option contracts (basic concepts, ice-hockey diagrams, practical aspects of option trading)

7. Examples of option contracts (stock option, currency option, interest-rate option, option on stock index)

8. Elements of option pricing (binomial model, Black-Scholesova formula, sensitivity analysis, put-call parity)

9. Option combinations (straddles, combinations, synthetic securities and others)

10. Trading using options (position and spread speculation, box arbitrage, hedging using options)

11. Exotic options (Asian, barrier, correlation, hybrid and others)

 
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