Option Valuation and Hedging

The 'must have' book of the year for options traders, financial engineers, and portfolio managers--state-of-the art options strategies from today's most respected experts Marti G. Subrahmanyam and Sanjiv Das know options. A world authority on options pricing and capital markets, Professor Subrahmanyam frequently shares his financial acumen with such lending giants as J.P. Morgan and Company and Deutsche Bank. Sanjiv Das is a finance professor at Harvard University. In this timely new work, these two options gurus share the latest state-of-the-art strategies for the pricing and hedging of options contracts, with particular emphasis on designing options strategies. Highly applied, the book features specific case studies including the use of options in stocks, stock indices, foreign exchange, futures contracts, and interest rate instruments. Traders and other financial pros will welcome the strong quantitative focus on using options to manage risk. * Acquaints practitioners with the state-of-the-art techniques in the field of options strategies * Well-known academic author team with substantial marketplace credibility MARTI G. SUBRAHMANYAM, PhD, (New York, New York) is the Charles E.Merrill Professor of Finance at New York University, and has taught at MIT, INSEAD, and Cambridge University. He is a consultant to many of the world's leading financial institutions. SANJIV DAS, PhD, (New York, New York) is an Assistant Professor of Finance at Harvard University Graduate School of Business. Formerly, he was a vice president at Citibank,N.A. in their Investment Banking Division.