What you will learn
- Learn to price forward and futures contracts.
- Be familiar with futures contract specifications and market conventions.
- Understand the valuation of a variety of swap contracts.
- Learn how to extract credit risk measures from CDS spreads and asset swap spreads.
- Understand common trading strategies using futures, forwards, swaps and options.
- Develop a conceptual understanding of the Black-Scholes-Merton option valuation model.
- Use option sensitivities (the Greeks) to determine the impact of changing model parameters on option prices.
- Understand basic hedge accounting using futures, forwards, swaps and options.
Program Overview
Expert instruction
6 skill-building courses
Self-paced
Progress at your own speed
4 months
1 - 2 hours per week
Discounted price: $1,269
Pre-discounted price: $1,410USD
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Courses in this program
NYIF's Derivatives Professional Certificate
- Forwards and Futures
- Swaps Fundamentals
- FX Markets Derivatives, Cross Currency Swaps, and Credit Derivatives
- Option Contracts, Participants, Strategies, and Pricing
- Greeks, American Options and Volatility
- Derivatives Professional Certificate Examination
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I joined Derivatives Professional Certificate course with NYIF last year and I can say it is one of the best courses about financial derivatives that I have taken during my career. It covers wide range of topics and it helped me to sharpen my professional skills. From Forwards and futures to swaps and options. I learned how to price an option with Black-Scholes and Binomial models. I would recommend the certificate for anyone who is dealing with derivatives or want to gain solid understanding about them. Finally, I had a great opportunity to connect with people in the field and discuss what we learned.
Abdullah Al-Ateeqi , Senior Dealer, KFH
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