The Eurodollar Futures and Options Handbook

This is today's most up-to-date and comprehensive resource for eurodollar futures traders, hedgers, and researchers. Eurodollar futures, and put and call options traded on those futures, revolutionized the world of banking and finance and are now among the most widely traded money market contracts in the world. "The Eurodollar Futures and Options Handbook" explores the complete range of current research and trading practice on these uniquely flexible trading vehicles, and tells you everything you need to know to increase your profits - and, more important, control your losses - when navigating this complex market.Featuring contributions from leading Eurodollar experts, including the author's seminal articles on Eurodollar convexity bias and measuring and trading term TED spreads, this long-awaited book explains: Eurodollar futures - What they are, how they are priced, and how they can be used to hedge interest rate risk and trade the yield curve; Eurodollar options - structures and patterns of Eurodollar rate volatilities, along with price, volatility, and risk parameter conventions of Eurodollar options.Eurodollar futures and options trading has grown exponentially, with no end in sight to its phenomenal growth. Let "The Eurodollar Futures and Options Handbook" arm you with the latest knowledge on these important trading vehicles, and provide you with the strategies and techniques you need to make the most of this liquid and lucrative market. Today's Eurodollar market - the market for dollar denominated deposits outside of the United States - is perhaps the largest and most liquid of the world's short-term dollar markets and is becoming the new standard of value for fixed income markets. For over a decade, futures and options traders in this market have relied on "Eurodollar Futures and Options" (by Burghardt, Belton, Lane, Luce, and McVey) for accurate market analysis coupled with solid, results-oriented trading and hedging strategies.Markets have changed dramatically, however, and the need for a comprehensive new handbook has become obvious and acute. The "Eurodollar Futures and Options Handbook" takes over where that book left off and incorporates all of the major advances in understanding how Eurodollar futures and options work and how traders and hedgers should use them. With contributions from Galen Burghardt, his colleagues, and collaborators, this hands-on volume focuses on every facet of this powerful market. It provides practitioners with...