Finance - Financial Derivatives

The last finance major subject in USM is a difficult subject, as me myself consider this young born financial instruments as the top level knowledge in finance field with lots of complicated calculation. (even though the greatest investor Warren Buffett named it as finance destruction weapon.) Below is what we learn in coming days through this last semester.

1) Derivatives: Introduction and Overview

2) Malaysian Derivative Markets and Trading

3) Forward and Futures Markets: Pricing and Analysis

4) Stock Index Futures Contracts: Analysis and Applications

5) Interest Rate Futures: The 3-month KLOBOR Futures Contract

6) Introduction to Options

7) Option Contracts: Specification and Trading

8) Option Strategies and Payoffs

9) Option Pricing

10) Replication, Synthetics and Arbitrage

11) Options in Corporate Finance and Real Options

12) Interest Rate Swaps, FRAs and Credit Derivatives

13) Derivative Instruments and Islamic Finance

Major focus will be on futures and option, which is the 2 most common instruments in present.