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Fundamentals of Futures and Options/Series 3 Exam Seminar

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Seminar: ID# 1001706

This course is available in both in-person and video conference formats.

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Pricing: $625.00   Early Bird: $525.00
About This Course:
For more than 30 years, the IFM has provided attendees with a solid understanding of futures, options and swaps markets from trading and mechanics to terminology, risk management, pricing, and basic trade strategies and regulation.

This virtual instructor-led course is delivered in 2-hour sessions occurring over 5 days. Program is delivered by an engaging instructor with extensive real-world expertise, and the class discussion is supported by case studies, practice exercises and print materials. The course fee includes two must-read industry books - Futures and Options and the Guide to U.S. Futures Regulation.What You'll Learn:After the course you will be able to:
  • Describe trading and uses of futures and be able compare and contrast futures to securities and cash market products.
  • Understand futures trading theory, basic functions, characteristics, pricing and terminology.
  • Interpret problems faced by those who are either long or short the market and understand how using listed contracts alleviates those problems by calculation of profit or loss with/without futures implementation.
  • Explain the principles of margins, offset, settlement.
  • Understand the strategy used in different order types.
  • Describe the nature of "basis risk" and how it may impact normally robust hedging results.
  • Describe the nature of future spreads as "relative positions".
  • Identify the principles of hedging and cash-futures price relationships as well as the importance of the basis.
  • Understand the use of futures to hedge exposure to an underlying commodity or to speculate on a future price.
  • Enumerate the uses of stock-indexes, foreign exchange, energy, metals and other futures-based commodities.
  • Understand options nomenclature including premiums, exercise, assignment and settlement.
  • Describe option price determinants of option price and how they affect the option premium.
  • Understand use of option spreads to focus on a given market forecast; implementing vertical spread, horizontal spread, straddle, strangles, butterfly and condor strategies.
  • Compare futures and options on futures as risk management tools.
  • Understand portfolio management strategies and tactics using various futures and options products to modify the risk characteristics of a given portfolio.
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