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by Giles Jewitt
FX Derivatives Trader School
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I: The Basics
Chapter 1: Introduction to Foreign Exchange
Practical Aspects of the FX Market
What Do FX Traders Call Different Currency Pairs?
Chapter 2: Introduction to FX Derivatives
Vanilla Call and Put Options
Practical Aspects of the FX Derivatives Market
Chapter 3: Introduction to Trading
Bids and Offers
Market Making
Price Making and Risk Management Overview
Practical A: Building a Trading Simulator in Excel
Task A: Set Up a Ticking Market Price
Task B: Set Up a Two-Way Price and Price-Taking Functionality
Task C: Introduce Price-Making Functionality
Extensions
Chapter 4: FX Derivatives Market Structure
Client Types
Bank FX Derivatives Trading Desk Structure
Tips for a Trading Internship
Tips for a Junior Trader
FX Derivatives Interbank Direct Market
FX Derivatives Interbank Broker Market
Chapter 5: The Black-Scholes Framework
Black-Scholes Stochastic Differential Equation (SDE)
Solving the Black-Scholes SDE
Calculating Option Values Using Terminal Spot Distributions
The Black-Scholes Formula
Practical B: Building a Numerical Integration Option Pricer in Excel
Task A: Set Up the Terminal Spot Distribution
Task B: Set Up the Option Payoff and Calculate the Option Price
Testing
Chapter 6: Vanilla FX Derivatives Greeks
Option Value
Delta
Gamma
Vega
Summary
Practical C: Building a Black-Scholes Option Pricer in Excel
Task A: Set Up a Simple Black-Scholes Options Pricer
Task B: Set Up a VBA Pricing Function
Task C: Generate First-Order Greeks
Task D: Plot Exposures
Chapter 7: Vanilla FX Derivatives Pricing
Maintaining Volatility Surfaces
Vanilla Price Making
Chapter 8: Vanilla FX Derivatives Structures
Straddle
Strangle
Butterfly (Fly)
Risk Reversal (RR)
Leveraged Forward
ATM Calendar Spread
Call/Put Spreads
Seagull
Chapter 9: Vanilla FX Derivatives Risk Management
Trading Gamma
Trading the Short-Date Position
Trading the ATM Position
FX Derivatives Trading P&L
FX Derivatives Market Language
Chapter 10: Vanilla FX Derivatives Miscellaneous Topics
Present Valuing and Future Valuing
Market Tenor Calculations
Option Premium Conversions
Practical D: Generating Tenor Dates in Excel
Part II: The Volatility Surface
Chapter 11: ATM Curve Construction
Variance
Core ATM Curve Construction
ATM Curve Construction: Short-Dates
Practical E: Constructing an ATM Curve in Excel
Task A: Constructing an ATM Curve Using Interpolation
Task B: Constructing an ATM Curve Using a Model
Task C: Adding Weights to an ATM Curve
Chapter 12: Volatility Smile Market Instruments and Exposures
Market Instrument Vega Exposures
Risk Reversal Contract
Butterfly Contract
Volatility Smile Risk Management
Volatility Smile Construction Methods
Practical F: Constructing a Volatility Smile in Excel
Task A: Set Up the Malz Smile Model
Task B: Plot Implied Volatility versus Delta and Investigate Parameters
Task C: Use Black-Scholes to Get Strike from Delta
Task D: Switch to VBA Functions and Plot Implied Volatility versus Strike
Task E: Investigate Volatility Smile Strike Placement
Chapter 13: Probability Density Functions
Fat-Tailed Distributions
Confidence Intervals
Limitations of Volatility Smile Parameterization
Practical G: Generating a Probability Density Function from Option Prices in Excel
Part III: Vanilla FX Derivatives Trading
Chapter 14: Vanilla FX Derivatives Trading Exposures
Delta
Gamma and Theta
Vega and Weighted Vega
Adapted Greeks
Zeta
Interest Rate Risk (Rho)
Chapter 15: Vanilla FX Derivatives Trading Topics
Understanding the FX Derivatives Market
Trading the Overnight
Gartman's Rules of Trading
Vega Positioning
Short-Date Trading: Long ATM versus Short Wings
Client Option Orders
Quoting Vanilla Spreads
Trading Long-Dated FX Derivatives
Trading Pegged Currency Pairs
Positive Vanilla Spreads
Writing-Off Vanilla Risk
Vanilla Pin Risk
Low Delta Vanilla Options
Agreeing Broker Market Data
Chapter 16: ATM Volatility and Correlation
ATM Volatility Triangles
Dephased Vega
Managing Cross-Currency Positions
Chapter 17: FX Derivatives Market Analysis
Calculating Breakevens
Implied versus Realized Analysis
Market Instrument Analysis
Carry Trades
Part IV: Exotic FX Derivatives
Chapter 18: Exotic FX Derivatives Pricing
Exotic Pricing Example
Pricing the Volatility Smile
VVV Pricing Example: Part 1
Stopping Time
VVV Pricing Example: Part 2
Path Dependence
Chapter 19: FX Derivatives Pricing Models
Stochastic Volatility Models
Local Volatility Models
Mixed Volatility Models
Jump Diffusion Models
Stochastic Interest Rate Models
Chapter 20: Exotic FX Derivatives Product Classification
First-Generation Exotics
Second-Generation Exotics
Third-Generation Exotics
Chapter 21: European Digital Options
European Digital Replication
European Digital Pricing
European Digital Bid–Offer Spread
European Digital Greeks
European Digital Range
Chapter 22: European Barrier Options
European Knock-out Replication
Intrinsic Value
European Knock-in Replication
European Barrier Greeks
European Barrier Pricing
European Barrier Bid–Offer Spread
Chapter 23: Touch Options
Delta Risk
Vega Risk
Gamma and Pin Risk
Touch Barrier Delta Gap
One-Touch Pricing
One-Touch Variations
No-Touch Options
Chapter 24: American Barrier Options
Regular American Barrier Options
Reverse American Barrier Options
Double American Barrier Options
Knock-in/Knock-out Option Replication
Strike-out Options
Chapter 25: Exotic FX Derivatives Trading Topics
Exotic Risk Management Overview
Exotic Bid–Offer Spreading
Exotic Interbank Broker Market
Structured FX Hedging Strategies
FX Derivatives Investment Products
Shadow Barriers
Recycling Exotic Risk
Why Market Participants Prefer to Sell American Barriers
Chapter 26: Window Barrier and Discrete Barrier Options
Front-Window Barrier Options
Rear-Window Barrier Options
Generic Window Barrier Options
Window Barrier Risk Management
Discrete Barrier Options
Practical H: Building a Monte Carlo Option Pricer in Excel
Task A: Set Up the Simulation
Task B: Set Up a Vanilla Option Payoff and the Monte Carlo Loop
Task C: Set Up Multiple Payoffs
Task D: Pricing Barrier Options
Task E: Multi-Asset Simulation
Extensions
Chapter 27: Vanilla Variations
Late-Delivery Vanilla Options
American Vanilla Options
Self-Quanto Vanilla Options
Chapter 28: Accrual and Target Redemption Options
Accrual Options
Target Redemption Options
Chapter 29: Asian Options
Average Rate Options
Average Strike Options
Double Average Rate Options
Chapter 30: Multi-Asset Options
Multi-Asset Trading Risks
Multi Asset Bid–Offer Spreading
Basket Options
Dual Digital Options
Best-of and Worst-of Options
Quanto Options
Chapter 31: Miscellaneous Options
Volatility and Variance Swaps
Forward Volatility Agreements
Forward Start Options
Compound Options
Further Reading
About the Companion Website
Index
End User License Agreement
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