Nassim Taleb – Dynamic Hedging: Managing Vanilla and Exotic Options

Nassim Nicholas Taleb is the founder of Empirica Capital LLC, a hedge fund operator, and a fellow at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University. He has held a variety of senior derivative trading positions in New York and London and worked as an independent floor trader in Chicago. Dr. Taleb was inducted in February 2001 in the Derivatives Strategy Hall of Fame. He received an MBA from the Wharton School and a Ph.D. from University Paris-Dauphine.

What You’ll Learn In Dynamic Hedging. Managing Vanilla and Exotic Options

MARKETS, INSTRUMENTS, PEOPLE.

• The Generalized Option.
• Liquidity and Liquidity Holes.
• Volatility and Correlation.

MEASURING OPTION RISKS.

• Gamma and Shadow Gamma.
• Theta and Minor Greeks.
• Fungibility, Convergence, and Stacking.
• Bucketing and Topography.
• Beware the Distribution.

TRADING AND HEDGING EXOTIC OPTIONS.

• Binary Options: European Style.
• Compound, Choosers, and Higher Order Options.
• Multiasset Options.

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