Unit 7 Assignment
For this assignment, you will be discussing the bond environment. You will identify techniques, characteristics, and the motivations involved in hedging.
If you participate in the Assignment Discussion Board, summarize your findings in your paper. Submit a minimum 2-page research paper that addresses all the items in the Checklist.
Checklist
Explain the basic characteristics of options markets and individual options contracts.
Analyze how investors can make (or lose) money from put and call options by creating exposure and hedging it with those tools (quantify).
Identify techniques that can be used for hedging.
Describe the motivations of investors for utilizing options.
Design a use of options combination strategies, such as spreads and straddles, to address a hedging exposure you develop. Select the best solution you think would address the exposure.
Explain the function of futures contracts for speculators.
Directions for Submitting your Assignment: Before you submit your assignment, you should save your work on your computer in a location and with a name that you will remember. Compose your assignment in a Microsoft ® Word ® document and save it as Username-MT483 Assignment-Unit#.doc
