"Derivates Unlocked: A Practitioner's Perspective offers the reader a practical explanation of the key concepts underpinning financial derivatives. Resolutely selective and user-friendly, this book constitutes an introduction to the basic pricing, design and use cases of derivatives products in...

Trading in binary options is discussed using an approach based on expected profit (EP) and expected loss (EL) as metrics of reward and risk of trades. These metrics are reviewed and the role of the EL/EP ratio as an indicator of quality of trades, taking risk tolerance into account, is...

In re The Walt Disney Co. Derivative Litigation is notable for upholding the broad latitude courts afford to boards through the business judgment rule. The case addressed a $130 million termination package delivered to former Disney CEO, Michael Ovitz, after fourteen months of underperformance...

This Article rethinks how derivatives should be regulated. Adapted from Regulating Derivatives: A Fundamental Rethinking, 70 DUKE LAW JOURNAL 545 (2020) for publication in the SCIENCES PO LAW REVIEW’s January 2023 biennial issue (a symposium on “Financial Regulation after the 2008...

This paper presents the computing method for the derivative of geometric series without using the differentiation. This idea will be useful for researchers who are involving in finding the scientific solutions

This paper presents the summations of single terms and successive terms of geometric series and computation of the first derivative of geometric series in a different way. This idea will be useful for researchers who are involving in finding the scientific solutions

In this paper we propose an algorithm for the solution of optimalcontrol problems with nonlinear models based on a generalised Gauss-Newton algorithm but making use of analytic model derivatives. Themethod is implemented in WinSolve, a general nonlinear model solution program

In March 2021, the default of Archegos, a US family office, led to large losses for some global banks. Archegos was able to accumulate large exposures to and leverage on equities by entering into derivatives transactions with bank counterparties. When the price of the underlying stocks started...

Researchers and the investment community continually debate whether consumers have the requisite acumen regarding financial instruments. We find that consumers have intuitive knowledge about uncertainty, and they intend to alleviate that uncertainty through a relatively sophisticated financial...