Derivatives Crash Course for Dummies

A review of posts that present a free introductory course for beginners with simple examples to introduce basic vanilla derivative products as well as the difference between forwards, futures and options.  For a more detailed Crash course in Corporate Finance to build the foundations required to complete this course please see the Corporate Finance Training Guide Road map.

In our Derivative Crash Course, we start off with Derivative Payoff profiles and synthetics construction of products, followed by a set of simple assessment quizes and a derivative pricing and equation reference. The Crash Course is followed by an intermediate course that reviews product variation and basic pricing concepts. The objective here is to simply introduce derivative concepts in bite sized pieces.

Master Class: Options and derivatives crash course: Session One: Terminology

Master Class: Options and Derivatives Crash Course: Session Two: Forward, Futures and Options

Master Class: Options and Derivatives Crash Course: Session Three: Payoff profiles – Forwards

Master Class: Options and Derivatives Crash Course: Session Four: Payoff profiles – Options, Calls and Puts

Master Class: Options and Derivatives Crash Course: Session Five: Synthetics

If you liked this course and would like to test yourself, please see the following quizes.  Also checkout the derivative pricing equation and formula reference

Derivative Products Test yourself with a quiz – basic quiz one

Derivative Products Test yourself with a quiz – basic quiz two

Derivative Products Test yourself with a quiz -basic quiz three

If you would like to learn more about this subject we also recommend the second more advanced course on derivative products that digs deeper into the subject.

To view the detailed course description, please click on the link -  Derivatives Terminology Crash Course – Detailed Course Description

If you would like to buy the “Derivatives Terminology Crash Course” course as a pdf file , please see the Derivatives section at our online finance course store. The online finance course store includes easy-to-read-and-work-with downloadable pdf files, excel templates and ready-to-work with models that are shared to illustrate usage and speed up learning for advanced financial modeling, forecasting and simulation topics including interest rate forecasting and simulation, value at risk analysis, credit analysis and processes, Internal Capital Adequacy Assessment Process (ICAAP), asset liability management and other related middle office and risk and computational finance topics.

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