- Paperback: 512 pages
- Publisher: Pearson; 4 edition (1 Feb 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0130423580
- ISBN-13: 978-0130423580
- Product Dimensions: 25 x 20.4 x 2.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,003,387 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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For undergraduate courses in options and futures.
This introduction to futures and options markets is ideal for those with limited background in mathematics. Based on Hull's Options, Futures and Other Derivatives, one of the best-selling books on Wall Street and in the college market, this text offers an accessible presentation of the topic without the use of calculus.
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Thoroughly revised and updated, the Fourth Edition includes:
- Three new chapters:
- Exotic Options and Other Non-Standard Products
- Credit, Weather, Energy, and Insurance Derivatives
- Derivative Mishaps and What We Can Learn from Them
- Important new material on interest rate markets, volatility smiles, and value at risk.
- Many new problems reinforcing key concepts.
- A Solutions Manual containing worked-out answers for end-of-chapter questions and problems can now be purchased (ISBN 0-13-060603-0).
- New Excel-based software, DerivaGem, has been carefully designed to complement the material in the text. Updates to the software can be downloaded at: http://www.rotman.utoronto.ca/~hull
For more information on this and other Prentice Hall titles, please visit the Prentice Hall Web site at:
www.prenhall.com (Select "Finance" in the discipline finder).
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Having bought this book for a course covering financial derivatives, I found it extremely helpful in analysing the fundamental issues involved in pricing futures correctly.
After covering this topic fully it then became relatively simple to follow the understanding of pricing options, first through binomial trees, which then developed further into the Black-Scholes. The chapter on Exotic Options is more general and less in depth due to the complexities involved but it will give you a good insight into the financial products available.
I'd recommend this book to anyone who is new to the topic of futures and options. You'll be left with a solid understanding of the different financial derivatives available, as well as how to price them.
After covering this topic fully it then became relatively simple to follow the understanding of pricing options, first through binomial trees, which then developed further into the Black-Scholes. The chapter on Exotic Options is more general and less in depth due to the complexities involved but it will give you a good insight into the financial products available.
I'd recommend this book to anyone who is new to the topic of futures and options. You'll be left with a solid understanding of the different financial derivatives available, as well as how to price them.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Points about book.
1. Book is industry standard for Future and Option.
2. There are two books from John C Hull about future and option, this book is more theoretical and doesn't have much of mathematical calculation, other book Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives with Derivagem CD which has more mathematical calculation about the Future and Option.
3. So if you are just want to read how Future and option work then this book is more than enough but for calculation purpose of price and other stuff i would say that go with other book.
4. Book is written very well and there are lots of examples in each chapter and some questions at the end of chapter.
1. Book is industry standard for Future and Option.
2. There are two books from John C Hull about future and option, this book is more theoretical and doesn't have much of mathematical calculation, other book Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives with Derivagem CD which has more mathematical calculation about the Future and Option.
3. So if you are just want to read how Future and option work then this book is more than enough but for calculation purpose of price and other stuff i would say that go with other book.
4. Book is written very well and there are lots of examples in each chapter and some questions at the end of chapter.
Format:Paperback
I recommend this book to everyone who starts his exploration into the field of derivatives. Hull explains the matter in a way that makes it understandable for almost every student, which would have been no easy task, given the difficulty one encounters in most books on derivatives.
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