Futures and Options

By Collin Carter

This course focuses on the institutional structure and economic functions of futures and options markets. Price formation in both commodity (e.g., corn, crude oil, cotton, and cattle) and financial (e... more

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October 20, 2015 ARE139: Lecture 8, Fall 2015
Lecture 8 Describes the operation of the clearinghouse. Prof. Carter uses the trade of a 100 oz. gold contract to explain the role and function of the clearinghouse in the market as an example.
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1h 26min
October 15, 2015 ARE139: Lecture 7, Fall 2015
Trading equity indices an introduction. Professor Carter discusses
commodity price relationships, explaining inter-temporal commodity
pricing relationships - soybeans and wheat are used as examples. The
importance of storage and how storage affects markets, and accounting
for the costs of storage.
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1h 24min
October 13, 2015 ARE139: Lecture 6, Fall 2015
Lecture 6 gives examples of treasury-bond trading, pricing, profit-loss
calculation, basis points, interest-rate expectation, and of currency
trading are discussed. These are followed by video showing trading
action on the floor of the NY Mercantile Exchange and the Chicago Board
of Trade.
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1h 24min
October 08, 2015 ARE139: Lecture 5, Fall 2015
Lecture 5 presents the economic functions served by futures and options
markets. It then begins a description of the terminology and mechanics
involved in futures and options markets and provides a general
organization of a typical futures market and the role of regulators and
governmental oversight.
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1h 27min
October 06, 2015 ARE139: Lecture 4, Fall 2015
This class covers the use of Stock-Trak website. Describes the origins of futures
and how the development of futures options reduced the seasonal price
swings of agricultural commodities and encouraged the storage of grain.
Answers how to read futures contract price quote tables, what is the
opening price, settlement price, lifetime high and low prices?

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1h 23min
October 01, 2015 ARE139: Lecture 3, Fall 2015
This class describes what options contracts, or options on futures
contracts are. It also answers what the difference is between a call
option and a put option. What does it mean to go long or go short?
Professor Carter describes the top U.S. exchanges, when they were
founded and the primary trading instruments on each. Next, he describes
similar international futures markets. Old-fashioned pit trading vs.
electronic trading methods are described. Carter discusses the
importance of futures markets on the world economy.
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1h 25min
September 29, 2015 ARE139: Lecture 2, Fall 2015
Lecture 2 continues the course introduction - explaining just what is a futures
contract and what are the four categories of futures contract. This
lecture also provides an introduction to an options contract.

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1h 23min
September 24, 2015 ARE139: Lecture 1, Fall 2015
Lecture 1 starts with a broad outline of the course. Carter discusses the history and basic principles of futures markets.
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1h 22min

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