For advanced undergraduate or graduate business, economics, and financial engineering courses in derivatives, options and futures, or risk management. Designed to bridge the gap between theory and practice, this successful book continues to impact the college market and is regarded as "the bible" in trading rooms throughout the world. This edition has been completely reworked from beginning to end to improve presentation, update material, and reflect recent market developments. Though nonessential mathematical material has been either eliminated or moved to end-of-chapter appendices, the concepts that are likely to be new to many readers have been explained carefully, and are supported by numerical examples. This book includes Business Snapshots (about 60 in total) - carefully thought out and integrated into the main material in chapters, and describes real world situations and interesting issues that are highlighted to illustrate points being made throughout the text. It is completely revised - reflects market developments. Makes these chapters in this edition more straightforward and easier to teach. More discussion of how models can be implemented in Excel - Monte Carlo simulation in Chapter 17, Garch models in Chapter 19, and the variance-gamma model in Chapter 24. Includes examples in this book and Excel spreadsheets on: a series of Technical Notes - available on the author's Web site to accompany this book, and creates a streamlined and more student friendly presentation by including less purely technical material in the book; new sequencing of chapters - the second half of book has been reworked; better meet the needs of students and instructors; separate chapter on Convexity, Timing, and Quanto adjustments; affords succinct and targeted coverage of these concepts; chapters on credit risk and credit derivatives - competing texts do not have these; and excellent treatment of binomial trees and the principle of risk-neutral valuation.