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Finance and capital markets
Options, swaps, futures, MBSs, CDOs, and other derivatives

Put and call options

  1. American call options
  2. Basic shorting
  3. American put options
  4. Call option as leverage
  5. Put vs. short and leverage
  6. Call payoff diagram
  7. Put payoff diagram
  8. Put as insurance
  9. Put-call parity
  10. Long straddle
  11. Put writer payoff diagrams
  12. Call writer payoff diagram
  13. Arbitrage basics
  14. Put-call parity arbitrage I
  15. Put-call parity arbitrage II
  16. Put-call parity clarification
  17. Actual option quotes
  18. Option expiration and price
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Forward and futures contracts