Finance IIB

Detailed and well summarised study notes of the "Fixed Income Securities - Managing Bond Portfolios" section taught in Finance IIB at UCT (FTX3045S).

Detailed and well summarised study notes of the "Fixed Income Securities - Term Structure of Interest Rates" section taught in Finance IIB at UCT (FTX3045S).

Detailed and well summarised study notes of the "Fixed Income Securities - Bond Prices and Yields" section taught in Finance IIB at UCT (FTX3045S).

Detailed and well summarised study notes of the "Derivatives - Futures and Risk Management" section taught in Finance IIB at UCT (FTX3045S).

Detailed and well summarised study notes of the "Derivatives - Futures Market" section taught in Finance IIB at UCT (FTX3045S).

Detailed and well summarised study notes of the "Derivatives - Options Market" section taught in Finance IIB at UCT (FTX3045S).

This document is all lecture notes, regarding option markets, combined.

A brief summary on option valuation. Focus is on the binomial option pricing and black scholes option valuation. As well as looking at the determinants of option values.

An introduction to option markets looking at call and put options from both the holder and writers perspective with graphs. Option strategies are looked at to have an understanding of payoffs and profits of the different options with graph illustrations. The put-call parity is also summarized along with other theory.