Learning Platform - "Markets & Trading"

Course: Oil Options

About the online training programme

This e-Learning consist of a combination of text, audio, animation-style video lessons and engagement about oil option contracts. Therefore, it covers deal-making in option contracts, the pricing thereof, the trading of calls and puts, all in relation to generic options and complex (or exotic) variants.

Course Contents

This course covers the following video lessons:

  • Introduction
    • Definition
    • Option contract & contract specifications
  • Types of options
    • Call options & Price cap
    • Put options & Price floor
  • Oil option pricing & valuation
    • Premium
      • Price driving factors
      • Contract-specific factors
      • Market-specific factors
    • Option valuation models
  • Position management
    • Rights and (potential) obligations
    • Exercise & assignment
    • Settlement
  • Hedging oil price risk with oil options
    • Hedging an exposure of an oil producer with a put option
    • Hedging an exposure of an oil consumer with a call option
      • Selecting strike price and maturity date
  • Vanilla oil options vs. Exotic oil options
    • Complexity level
    • Option (exercise) style: European, American, Asian & more
    • Types of exotics
      • Average rate options, Barrier options, Quanto options, Exchange options, Basket options, Cross options, Rainbow options

This course also includes examination and certification.

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