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Financial Derivatives Basics
Rating: 4.5 out of 5(1,099 ratings)
10,360 students

Financial Derivatives Basics

The Course is structured to help students understand structure of Derivatives instruments
Created byCFINACC Trusted Mentor in the Field of Finance & Accounting
Last updated 5/2019
English

What you'll learn

  • Derivative Markets and Instruments, forwards, futures, swap and options.

Course content

3 sections • 18 lectures • 1h 10m total length

  • What is a Derivative Contract ?2:04

    Important Note" Since it is difficult for students with limited knowledge about derivatives to understand the definition, I have begun the course with few real life situations and then linked situation with the definition. Hence, I will advise you to watch the videos in the manner that they are listed (follow the sequence) as later videos in this section contain examples explained in the earlier videos.


    • Explains the purpose of derivative contracts/ instruments

    • Describes the term "hedging"

  • Derivatives & Risk Management1:47

    Explains the basic structure of a Derivative instrument and how it is used to hedge against market risks

  • Long, Short & Underlying Asset1:32

    • Describes "Long", "short" and "Underlying", with the help of examples

  • Contract Execution4:19

    This video explains

    • Contract Execution

    • Gain/Loss

  • Physical Delivery vs Cash Settlement3:53

    • This lecture explains the difference between the cash settlement and physical settlement. The purpose here is to help students understand that outcome under both the contracts will be same.

  • Definition2:02

    • Explains the Definition of derivatives instruments by linking definition to the situation explained in the earlier videos.

Requirements

  • Basic Mathematics and Fundamentals of Finance.

Description

What you will learn?

  • Types of Derivative Instruments and markets

  • Definitions and terminologies

Requirements

  • None

Description

If you are a beginner and don’t know much about Financial Derivatives. Then you have come to the right place as I have covered all the concepts from scratch.

Why you should take this course? What value it will add?

Let me first discuss some problems and issues that students encounter when they study Financial derivatives.

  • First, Financial derivatives is one of the complexed courses in Finance, as the students need to have a strong knowledge about fundamentals of Finance to understand the pricing and valuation of financial derivatives instruments.

  • Second, one concept leads to another, so students find it difficult to understand linkages between various interlinked concepts.

  • Third, many of the concepts covered in Financial derivatives are difficult to relate to real life examples as compared to the other subjects in Finance such as Corporate Finance or Financial Reporting and Analysis.

I have tried to address the above mentioned issues

  • By adding complementary lectures to explain fundamentals of finance which are relevant to the topics covered in the Financial derivatives

  • I have divided the concepts into various parts and explained each part separately and also how all components are related to one another

  • I have included examples and focused on relating a concept to a situation. This will help students to visualize, which in turn help them to retain the concepts

  • Used plain language

This course is divided into three sections

  • Introduction

  • Forward & Futures

  • CDS, Options and SWAPs

I will advise you to watch the videos in the manner that they are listed as videos in the later sections contain examples explained in the earlier videos.

Who this course is for

  • This course is for CFA Level 1 Candidates

  • This course is for students who are interested in studying Financial derivatives at University level programs



Who this course is for:

  • Finance Students
  • CFA Students

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