Introduction to Futures and Options Markets

by John C. Hull

This introduction to futures and options markets is ideal for readers with limited backgrounds in mathematics. Emphasizing the use of binomial trees for explaining how options are priced, it shows how one- and two-step binomial trees can be analyzed and includes comprehensive treatment of numerical procedures based on binomial trees.

Genres: Finance, Nonfiction

504 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1991

About the author

John C. Hull is a Professor of Derivatives and Risk Management at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto.
He is both a very well respected researcher in the academic field of quantitative finance (see for example the Hull-White model), and also the author of (among other works) two books on financial derivatives that have become market practitioners' standard texts: "Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives" and "Fundamentals of Futures and Options Markets".
In 1999, he was awarded the Financial Engineer of the Year Award, by the International Association of Financial Engineers.