Master derivatives trading, options strategies, futures, swaps, and forex risk management with practical, market-focused learning.
Build the skills to analyze financial derivatives, price options, design trading strategies, and manage risk in real-world markets.
This Specialization gives you a structured path to understanding how derivatives work and how they are used by traders, investors, businesses, and financial institutions. You will learn the mechanics of futures, options, forwards, swaps, and currency derivatives, along with their role in hedging, speculation, and financial decision-making.
You will explore options trading strategies such as spreads, straddles, strangles, butterfly positions, and protective hedges. You will also learn key pricing concepts, including intrinsic value, time value, volatility, Black-Scholes, and option Greeks such as Delta, Gamma, Vega, and Theta.
The program also covers forex risk management, currency futures, currency options, margin systems, clearing, settlement, and swap instruments used to manage financial exposure.
By the end of this Specialization, you will be able to analyze derivatives markets, evaluate payoff structures, interpret pricing signals, and apply futures, options, swaps, and currency derivatives for trading and risk management.
Übungsprojekt
Learners will complete practical projects focused on analyzing futures, options, swaps, and currency derivatives in real market scenarios. They will evaluate payoff structures, design hedging strategies, interpret option pricing signals, and apply derivatives tools to manage trading, investment, and forex risk.
