Derivatives Trading & Risk Management

About this course

Master derivatives trading, options strategies, futures, swaps, and forex risk management with practical, market-focused learning. Build the skills to analyze financial derivatives, price options, design trading strategies, and manage risk in real-world markets. This Specialization gives you a structured path to understanding how derivatives work and how they are used by traders, investors, businesses, and financial institutions. You will learn the mechanics of futures, options, forwards, swaps, and currency derivatives, along with their role in hedging, speculation, and financial decision-making. You will explore options trading strategies such as spreads, straddles, strangles, butterfly positions, and protective hedges. You will also learn key pricing concepts, including intrinsic value, time value, volatility, Black-Scholes, and option Greeks such as Delta, Gamma, Vega, and Theta. The program also covers forex risk management, currency futures, currency options, margin systems, clearing, settlement, and swap instruments used to manage financial exposure. By the end of this Specialization, you will be able to analyze derivatives markets, evaluate payoff structures, interpret pricing signals, and apply futures, options, swaps, and currency derivatives for trading and risk management.

Course objectives

• gain a comprehensive understanding of options trading strategies
• learn key pricing concepts like Black-Scholes and option Greeks
• explore the mechanics of futures, options, forwards, swaps, and currency derivatives
• understand forex risk management and related instruments