Financial Derivatives Toolbox

Preface

About This Book

Organization of the Document

Typographical Conventions

Related Products

Background Reading

Black-Derman-Toy (BDT) Modeling

Heath-Jarrow-Morton (HJM) Modeling

Financial Derivatives

Overview

Introduction

Interest Rate Models

Trees

Financial Instruments

Hedging

Creating and Managing Instrument Portfolios

Portfolio Creation

Portfolio Management

Using Financial Derivatives

Interest Rate Environment

Interest Rates vs. Discount Factors

Interest Rate Term Conversions

Interest Rate Term Structure

Pricing and Sensitivity from
Interest Rate Term Structure

Pricing

Sensitivity

Heath-Jarrow-Morton (HJM) Model

Building an HJM Forward Rate Tree

Using HJM Trees in MATLAB

Pricing and Sensitivity from HJM

Pricing and the Price Tree

Using treeviewer to View Instrument Prices Through Time

HJM Pricing Options Structure

Calculating Prices and Sensitivities

Black-Derman-Toy Model (BDT)

Building a BDT Interest Rate Tree

Using BDT Trees in MATLAB

Pricing and Sensitivity from BDT

Pricing and the Price Tree

BDT Pricing Options Structure

Calculating Prices and Sensitivities

Hedging Portfolios

Hedging

Hedging Functions

Hedging with hedgeopt

Self-Financing Hedges (hedgeslf)

Specifying Constraints with ConSet

Setting Constraints

Portfolio Rebalancing

Hedging with Constrained Portfolios

Example: Fully Hedged Portfolio

Example: Minimize Portfolio Sensitivities

Example: Under-Determined System

Portfolio Constraints with hedgeslf

Function Reference

Functions - By Category

Portfolio Hedge Allocation

Fixed Income Pricing from Interest Term Structure

Fixed Income Pricing and Sensitivity from
Heath-Jarrow-Morton Tree

Fixed Income Pricing and Sensitivity from
Black-Derman-Toy Tree

Heath-Jarrow-Morton Utilities

Black-Derman-Toy Utilities

Heath-Jarrow-Morton Bushy Tree Manipulation

Black-Derman-Toy Recombining Tree Manipulation

Derivatives Pricing Options

Instrument Portfolio Handling

Financial Object Structures

Interest Term Structure

Date Functions

Graphical Display Functions

Functions - Alphabetical List

Glossary


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