Preface

When I first started working on derivatives, I reviewed all the books I could find on the subject. Many of them did an excellent job explaining how derivatives work. But I could find none that did an adequate job of explaining how derivatives contracts are managed and the operations behind the business. Over the years of working on various systems, I made copious notes on these underserved topics, which I eventually organized and posted on my blog. These formed the rump of this book.

The objective of this book is to provide a structured and focused study of the derivatives market on both the buy and sell sides, the life cycle of various types of derivatives contracts, and the underlying technology platforms. I describe all of these in ...

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