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Visit this site: http://www.finpipe.com/derivatives.htm
Author:Financial Pipeline
Description: Derivatives are financial securities whose value is derived from another "underlying" financial security. Options, futures, swaps, swaptions, and structured notes are all examples of derivative securities. Derivatives can be used in hedging, protecting against financial risk, or can be used to speculate on the movement of commodity or security prices, interest rates, or the levels of financial indices. The valuation of derivatives makes use of the statistical mathematics of uncertainty. With links to related articles. See also Derivatives Concepts A-Z, glossary of derivatives-related terminology designed to make the other articles in the Financial Pipeline's Derivatives section easier to understand.
Levels: College
Languages: English
Resource Types: Articles, Dictionaries, Glossaries, Thesauri
Math Topics: Statistics, Mathematics of Investment/Finance, Stock Market

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