FIN 4750 - Options

Institution:

CUNY Bernard M Baruch College

Subject:

Finance

Description:

3 hours; 3 credits This course introduces students to the options market. Its broad objectives are to link the underlying financial and real markets to their derived options markets, and to present students with a variety of possible trading strategies and pricing mechanisms. Specifically, the course analyzes the history and operations of the options markets; the factors affecting option prices; trading strategies involving a single option on a stock and the stock itself, as well as trading strategies involving combinations of options; and the two main types of option valuation approaches, the binomial and the Black-Scholes models. Prerequisites: FIN 3610, FIN 3710, and ECO 4000, and a minimum 2.0 GPA (C average) in FIN 3610, FIN 3710, and ECO 4000.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.baruch.cuny.edu

Phone Number:

(646) 312-1000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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