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Professional Option Strategies: Examining Forex Options

by Chand Sooran
added 1 month ago

How do options traders look at their portfolios? Professional managers have numerous option strategies and techniques they use when managing a portfolio of options and cash positions. This article outlines some...

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Commodity Swap: Types, Valuation, and Definition

by Chand Sooran
added 6 months ago

A commodity swap helps producers manage their exposure to fluctuations in their products’ prices, and although they can be risky, these swaps are important for energy, chemical and agricultural companies. The s...

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Hedging Swaps: Interest Rate Swaps and Risk

by Chand Sooran
added 7 months ago

A number of different swaps take place in derivatives markets. This article focuses particularly on hedging swaps and the techniques associated with them. Hedging Swaps Most of the market making in the intere...

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Currency Swap: Advantages, Valuation and Definition

by Chand Sooran
added 7 months ago

The future of banking lies in the securitization and diversification of loan portfolios. The global currency swap market will play an integral role in this transformation. Currency Swap Definition A currency ...

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Options Portfolio Management

by Chand Sooran
added 2 years ago

Trading professionals use a variety of tools in options portfolio management to deal with varying types of risk. These include the Stepladder report and the Greek options. Options Portfolio Management During ...

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Integration of Technology in Derivative Products

by Chand Sooran
added 2 years ago

Derivatives trading is supported by numerous computer systems to manage risk, account for positions on a mark-to-market basis and measure value-at-risk. A critical but often overlooked aspect of a competent de...

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Exotic Swaps

by Chand Sooran
added 2 years ago

There is greater competition in the global derivatives market and increased demand for tools to help investors tailor their risk profiles. And this means financial engineers are coming up with more creative opt...

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Measuring Risk

by Chand Sooran
added 2 years ago

In a previous article, we talked about the derivatives "greeks", tools derivatives end-users employ to describe and to characterize the various exposures to fluctuations in financial prices inherent in a partic...

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Financial Risk Evaluation and Management

by Chand Sooran
added 2 years ago

Financial risk and the management of risk are at the core of investment success. Without a solid understanding of risk and the principles for managing and reacting to it, you might as well be buying a series of...

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Credit Risk: Definition and Management

by Chand Sooran
added 2 years ago

Understanding credit risk is important for developing a general understanding of derivatives markets and how they are affected by risk. What is Credit Risk? Credit risk is a significant element in the array o...

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