Interest Rate Options: Pricing Caps and Floors

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Here is the second course on Advance Interest Rate Products. The perquisite for this course is the first course on pricing interest rate swaps.

The second more advance course builds on the foundation laid in the introductory course and works with more technical and complex topic of marking to market interest caps, interest rate floors and other related fixed income options. The same foundations defined here can be used to price range accrual notes as well as commodity linked notes.

Modelling the Term structure, zero curve and forward curve

Forward and Swaps – Pricing Interest Rate Swaps (IRS) – Fixing the term structure
Forward and Swaps – Pricing Interest Rate Swaps (IRS) – Calculating the zero curve
Forward and Swaps – Pricing Interest Rate Swaps (IRS) – Calculating the forward curve

Mark to Market (MTM), Pricing and Valuation

Forwards and Swaps – Pricing an Interest Rate Swap (IRS) – Calculating the MTM of the Swap
Forward and Swaps – Pricing Interest Rate Swaps (IRS) – Pricing Basis Swap
Forward and Swaps – Pricing Cross Currency Swaps (CCS)

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Derivatives for Dummies – a first look at options and derivatives

A quick look at basic concepts and vanilla options as well as synthetic manufacturing of options at a higher level of detail. The Derivatives for dummies crash course is followed by an intermediate level course that reviews product variation and basic pricing concepts.

Derivative products

The second course on derivatives and options products digs a little deeper into products, pricing, sensitivities and product variations over ten easy to read chapters. Starting again from vanilla products we touch upon options on currencies and Forex, options on interest rates, forwards, futures an Interest Rate Swaps.

Options and Futures Training: Derivative Products: Review
Options and Futures: Derivative Products: Vanilla Products
Options and Futures Training: Derivative Products: Pricing Basics
Options and Futures Training: Derivative Products: Greeks and Binomial Trees
Options and Futures Training: Derivative Products: Options on shares, stocks, currencies and equities
Options and Futures Training: Derivative products: Exotic Options
Options and Futures Training: Derivative products: Options on rates
Options and Futures Training: Derivative Products: Forwards
Options and Futures Training: Derivative Products: Futures
Options and Futures Training: Derivative Products: Swaps