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Demystifying Derivatives
Learn about market participants who make use of derivative products, the derivative products they use and why they use these products.
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Module 1: Financial Planning and Fixed Income
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Market Participants
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Corporations (borrowers of money)
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Banks & Asset Managers (lenders of money)
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Speculators
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Arbitrageurs
Module 2: The Derivative Products
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Futures & Forwards
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Options
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Swaps
Module 3: Uses & Applications
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Why each market participant would use futures/forwards, options & swaps
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How each market participants would use futures/forwards, options & swaps
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Strategy selection - comparing and contrasting choice
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Our own strategy selection: we'll design a strategy as a group based on our own market opinion
Translate market participants and products into a useful strategy
- Define derivative market participants
- Identify the primary product areas: futures/forwards, options & swaps.
- Describe the ways in which each user group uses each derivative product
- Translate their own market opinion or market risk into a derivative strategy which fits those needs
Asset managers, trading assistants, sales assistants, and compliance managers