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Option Elasticity

The sensitivity of an option price to the change in its underlying asset price. Differently stated, it is the change...

Option on Options

An option contract that has another option contract as underlying. This product depends on volatility of volatility (vol-vol) and therefore...

Backward Bleed

A bleed that measures the effect of time on an option contract (or an options portfolio) as it goes farther...

Interest Rate Floortion

An option on a floor. In other words, a floortion is an option to buy or sell an interest rate...

Interest Rate Caplet

An interest rate derivative (specifically, an interest rate option) which allows the holder to receive an interest rate payment during...

Interest Rate Floorlet

An interest rate derivative (specifically, an interest rate option) which allows the holder to receive an interest rate payment during...

Swaption

An option on a swap, that is, an option contract which allows the holder to enter into a swap. An...

Weighted Average Price Option

An average rate option in which the weighting of a given periodical price or rate (daily, weekly, monthly, ..) is...

Writing Naked Options

A naked option is an option that is not covered with an offsetting position in the underlying. In other words,...

Hybrid Derivative

A multi-asset derivative whose components don’t belong to the same asset class. In general, financial derivatives can be divided into...