MGMTMFE 406Derivative Markets
Management-Master of Financial Engineering · 4 units · Graduate professional courses (400-499)
Limited to Master of Financial Engineering program students. Introduction to derivative markets and basic concepts, models, analyses. and technical tools of quantitative finance used in these markets. Derivatives are both exchange traded and over-counter securities. Derivative markets are world’s largest and most liquid. Organization and role of put and call option markets, futures and forward markets, and their interrelations, with emphasis on arbitrage relations, valuation, and hedging with derivatives. Implementation of derivatives trading strategies, perspective of corporate securities as derivatives, functions of derivatives in securities markets, and recent innovations in derivative markets.
S/U or letter grading.
When it runs
- Winter 2026
- Winter 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
UCLA lists no requisites for this course.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
Nothing — this is an entry point.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.