FX Options and Smile Risk

Цена 67.50 - 130.00 USD

EAN/UPC/ISBN Code 9780470754191

Автор

Страниц 330

Год выпуска 2009

The FX options market represents one of the most liquid and strongly competitive markets in the world, and features many technical subtleties that can seriously harm the uninformed and unaware trader. This book is a unique guide to running an FX options book from the market maker perspective. Striking a balance between mathematical rigour and market practice and written by experienced practitioner Antonio Castagna, the book shows readers how to correctly build an entire volatility surface from the market prices of the main structures. Starting with the basic conventions related to the main FX deals and the basic traded structures of FX options, the book gradually introduces the main tools to cope with the FX volatility risk. It then goes on to review the main concepts of option pricing theory and their application within a Black–Scholes economy and a stochastic volatility environment. The book also introduces models that can be implemented to price and manage FX...