List of business snapshots ...................................................................................................15
List of technical notes .........................................................................................................16
Preface ...................................................................................................................................17
1. Introduction ..........................................................................................................................23
2. Futures markets and central counterparties ....................................................................46
3. Hedging strategies using futures .......................................................................................70
4. Interest rates .........................................................................................................................98
5. Determination of forward and futures prices ................................................................124
6. Interest rate futures ...........................................................................................................152
7. Swaps ...................................................................................................................................172
8. Securitization and the financial crisis of 2007–8 ...........................................................201
9. XVAs ...................................................................................................................................216
10. Mechanics of options markets ..........................................................................................227
11. Properties of stock options ...............................................................................................247
12. Trading strategies involving options ...............................................................................268
13. Binomial trees ....................................................................................................................288
14. Wiener processes and Itô’s lemma ..................................................................................316
15. The Black–Scholes–Merton model .................................................................................338
16. Employee stock options ....................................................................................................371
17. Options on stock indices and currencies ........................................................................384
18. Futures options and Black’s model .................................................................................401
19. The Greek letters ............................................................................................................... 417
20. Volatility smiles and volatility surfaces ..........................................................................451
21. Basic numerical procedures .............................................................................................470
22. Value at risk and expected shortfall ................................................................................ 514
23. Estimating volatilities and correlations ..........................................................................542
24. Credit risk ...........................................................................................................................562
25. Credit derivatives ...............................................................................................................587
26. Exotic options ..................................................................................................................... 614
27. More on models and numerical procedures .................................................................. 640
28. Martingales and measures ................................................................................................670
29. Interest rate derivatives: The standard market models ................................................688
30. Convexity, timing, and quanto adjustments ...................................................................707
31. Equilibrium models of the short rate ..............................................................................719
32. No-arbitrage models of the short rate .............................................................................732
33. Modeling forward rates .....................................................................................................755
34. Swaps revisited ...................................................................................................................773
35. Energy and commodity derivatives .................................................................................785
36. Real options ....................................................................................................................... 802
37. Derivatives mishaps and what we can learn from them ...............................................815
Glossary of terms ...............................................................................................................827
DerivaGem software .........................................................................................................851
Exchanges trading futures and options ..........................................................................856
Table for N(x) When x … 0 ..............................................................................................857
Author index ......................................................................................................................859
Subject index ......................................................................................................................863