Securities Trading and Derivatives

What You Will Learn

• 1 Learn the structure of primary and secondary markets, exchange and OTC venues, and the roles of key participants.
• 2 Understand order types, execution mechanics, clearing and settlement, and how trades become final.
• 3 Understand evaluation of equities, fixed income, and money market instruments with yield and pricing frameworks.
• 4 Apply fundamental and technical analysis to assess security value and trade timing using real-world market signals.
• 5 Calculate and apply risk metrics such as VaR, standard deviation, and position sizing rules to portfolios.
• 6 Learn the definitions, payoff profiles, and economic purposes of forwards, futures, options, and swaps.
• 7 Evaluate pricing and valuation models for forwards, futures, and swap contracts including carry and replication.
• 8 Analyze option mechanics, greeks, and binomial and Black-Scholes valuation approaches for professional use.
• 9 Design hedging strategies using derivatives to manage market, credit, and operational risk exposures.
• 10 Apply regulatory frameworks including SEC, FINRA, MiFID II, and Basel III to maintain market integrity.
• 11 Construct portfolios using modern portfolio theory and performance attribution metrics such as Sharpe and Information ratios.
• 12 Develop algorithmic trading strategies with execution algorithms, backtesting, and risk controls.