Financial markets homework help

Financial markets homework help. 2.This assignment requires that you answer the following 2 questions.  Your posting should be at least 150 words. Your posting is graded based upon your ability to relate the courses material to the topic under discussion, the level to which you support your point with specific examples and your writing.  Discussion Boards are not a place to over generalize, vent, use informal writing or use language not appropriate for a professional environment.
 

1. What is the difference between a long futures position and a short futures position?

 
B.“Speculation in futures markets is pure gambling. It is not in the public interest to allow speculators to trade on a futures exchange.” Discuss this viewpoint.
 

3. This assignment requires that you answer the following 2 questions.  Your posting should beat least 150 words. Your posting is graded based upon your ability to relate the courses material to the topic under discussion, the level to which you support your point with specific examples and your writing.  Discussion Boards are not a place to over generalize, vent, use informal writing or use language not appropriate for a professional environment.

 

1. Explain why a foreign currency can be treated as an asset providing a known yield.

 

1. Explain why the forward interest rate is less than the corresponding futures interest rate calculated from a Eurodollar futures contract.

 

4. This assignment requires that you answer the following question.  Your posting should be at least 100 words. Your posting is graded based upon your ability to relate the courses material to the topic under discussion, the level to which you support your point with specific examples and your writing.  Discussion Boards are not a place to over generalize, vent, use informal writing or use language not appropriate for a professional environment.

 
Explain the difference between the credit risk and the market risk in a financial contract.
 

5. This assignment requires that you answer the following 2 questions.  Your posting should be at least 100 words each. Your posting is graded based upon your ability to relate the courses material to the topic under discussion, the level to which you support your point with specific examples and your writing.  Discussion Boards are not a place to over generalize, vent, use informal writing or use language not appropriate for a professional environment.

 

1. Explain why brokers require margin when clients write options but not when they buy options.

 

1. Explain why an American call option on a dividend-paying stock is always worth at least as much as its intrinsic value. Is the same true of a European call option? Explain your answer.
2. This assignment requires that you answer the following 2 questions.  Your posting should be at least 50 words each. Your posting is graded based upon your ability to relate the courses material to the topic under discussion, the level to which you support your point with specific examples and your writing.  Discussion Boards are not a place to over generalize, vent, use informal writing or use language not appropriate for a professional environment.

 

1. Explain the risk-neutral valuation approaches to valuing a European option using a one-step binomial tree.

 

1. What does the Black–Scholes–Merton stock option pricing model assume about the probability distribution of the stock price in one year?

 

7. This assignment requires that you answer the following question.  Your posting should be at least 50 words. Your posting is graded based upon your ability to relate the courses material to the topic under discussion, the level to which you support your point with specific examples and your writing.  Discussion Boards are not a place to over generalize, vent, use informal writing or use language not appropriate for a professional environment.

 
Can an option on the yen-euro exchange rate be created from two options, one on the dollar-euro and the other on the dollar-yen exchange rate? Explain your answer.
 

8. This assignment requires that you answer the following question.  Your posting should be at least 50 words. Your posting is graded based upon your ability to relate the courses material to the topic under discussion, the level to which you support your point with specific examples and your writing.  Discussion Boards are not a place to over generalize, vent, use informal writing or use language not appropriate for a professional environment.

 
Explain the difference between value at risk and expected shortfall.
 
 
 
 

Financial markets homework help