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ARE 139: Futures and Options Markets

ARE 139: Futures and Options Markets (UC Davis). This consists of 26 video lectures given by Professor Colin Carter of agricultural and resource economics. This course focuses on the institutional structure and economic functions of futures and options markets.

Lecture 06 - Function of Futures and Options Markets, Market Mechanics


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Lecture 02 - Course outline, Futures Markets History and Market Mechanics
Lecture 03 - Futures Contracts
Lecture 04 - Options Contracts and Market History
Lecture 05 - Reading Futures Contract Price Quote Tables
Lecture 06 - Function of Futures and Options Markets, Market Mechanics
Lecture 07 - Treasury-bond-futures Trading and a Video of Action on the Trading Floor
Lecture 08 - Intertemporal Commodity Pricing, Storage and How It Affects a Market
Lecture 09 - Intertemporal Pricing Theory
Lecture 10 - Demand for Storage and Foreign Currency Trading
Lecture 11 - Pricing Financials
Lecture 12 - Eurodollars
Lecture 13 - Futures Price Forecasting
Lecture 14 - Technical Market Analysis
Lecture 15 - A further Review of Technical Analysis
Lecture 16 - Introduction to Hedging with Futures
Lecture 17 - Hedging Continued
Lecture 18 - Hedging Risk vs. Return, Diversification and Options on Futures
Lecture 19 - Options on Futures Continued, with Examples
Lecture 20 - Additional Options Concepts, Comparison of Futures and Options Trading
Lecture 21 - Options Pricing and Put-call Parity, Introduction to Arbitrage
Lecture 22 - Options Trades
Lecture 23 - Black-Scholes Options Pricing, Volatility Defined
Lecture 24 - Black-Scholes Continued, the Delta Effect
Lecture 25 - Hedging using Options
Lecture 26 - Options Trades Examples, Course Review