Derivatives Professional Certificate: Online
Develop a comprehensive, practical understanding of derivative instruments including market conventions, contract specifications, valuation, trading strategies and the regulation of derivatives markets.
The Online Professional Certificate in Derivatives encompasses the following core courses:
• Derivative Instruments
• Forwards and Futures
• Options
• Risk Management Using Derivatives
• Equities
• Fixed Income Securities
• Asset Backed Securities
All courses must be completed within one year with a score of at least 70% in each module.
MO1 - Fundamentals (duration: 1 Hr 40 Mins)
- Attitudes towards Risks
- Diversification
- Market Portfolio
- Capital Asset Pricing Model
- Compounded Returns
- Asset Price Process
- Unit Zero Coupon Bonds
- Spot Rates
MO2 - Forwards and Futures Contracts (duration: 20 Mins)
- Spot, Forward, and Futures Contracts
- Trading Volume and Open Interest
MO3 - Forwards and Futures Valuation (duration: 1 Hr 10 Mins)
- No-Arbitrage
- Forward Payoffs
- Cash and Carry Arbitrage
- Basis and Cost of Carry
- Financial Assets and FX Forwards
- Risk-Neutral Valuation
- Convergence
MO4 - Commodity Markets (duration: 25 Mins)
- Commodity Markets
- Crude Oil Forward Curve
- Commodity Markets Scenarios
- Seasonal Commodities and No-Arbitrage
MO5 - Hedging with Forwards and Futures (duration: 25 Mins)
- Hedging
- Hedging with Equity Index Futures
MO6 - Short Term Financial Forwards and Futures (duration: 1 Hr)
- Yield Curves
- Forward Zeros and Forward Interest Rates
- Spot and Forward Interest Rate
- Rate Lock
- Forward Rate Agreement
- Eurodollar Futures
- Federal Funds and FED Funds Futures
MO7 - Long Term Financial Forwards and Futures (duration: 20 Mins)
- Treasury Futures
Review Quiz (45 Mins)
MO1 - Swap Fundamentals (duration: 40 Mins)
- Swaps
- Simple Swap
- Swap Price and Value
- Swap Term Sheet
MO2 - Interest Rate Swaps: Basics (duration: 2 Hours 10 Mins)
- Unit Annuity
- Unit Coupon Bond
- Floating Rate Notes
- Forward Rate Agreement
- Interest Rate Swap
- The Swap Rate
- The Swap Rate Cont.
- BLOOMBERG SWPM
MO3 - Interest Rate Swaps: Advanced Topics (duration: 1 Hr 10 Mins)
- Forwards Swaps
- OIS Swaps
- Swaps and CDS Supplement
- Rate Swaps: Applications
MO4 - Equity Swaps (duration: 30 Mins)
MO5 - Cross-Currency Swaps (duration: 40 Mins)
Review Quiz – (45 Mins)
MO1 - Foreign Exchange Markets (duration: 30 Mins)
- Overview
- Managing FX Risk
MO2 - Foreign Exchange Forwards and Futures (duration: 50 Mins)
- Overview
- Deliverable and Non-Deliverable Forwards
MO3 - FX Swaps and Cross Currency Swaps (duration: 20 Mins)
MO4 - Swaps and CDS (duration: 1 Hour 40 Mins)
- Interest Rate Derivatives: Futures
- Asset Swaps
- Asset Swaps (Cont.)
- Credit Derivative
- Portfolio Credit Default Swap
- Credit Indices
MO5 - Case Study (duration: 1 Hour 10 Mins)
Review Quiz - (45 Mins)
MO1 - The Basics (duration: 20 Mins)
MO2 - Option Contracts (duration: 50 Mins)
- Payoffs of Vanilla Calls and Puts
- Replication and Put-Call Parity
- Payoffs and P/L
MO3 - Participants and Strategies (duration: 2 Hr 10 Mins)
- Participants
- Long Positions and Bull Spreads
- Understanding Binomial Tree
MO4 - Option Pricing (duration: 1 Hr 30 Mins)
- Pricing Models
- Black-Scholes Merton
- R-Example
MO5 – Review (duration: 45 Mins)
Review Quiz – (90 Mins)
MO1 - Greeks (duration: 2 Hr)
- Delta and Gamma
- Theta
- Vega
- Stock Pinning
MO2 - American Options (duration: 1 Hr 50 Mins)
- Introduction
- Monte Carlo Simulation
- Suggested Reading
MO3 - Volatility (duration: 20 Mins)
- Review Quiz - (90 Mins)
Duration : 1 Hour