Quantitative Finance - Stock Options explained 📈 Intro for Aspiring Quants

𝙎𝙏𝙊𝘾𝙆 𝙊𝙋𝙏𝙄𝙊𝙉𝙎 𝘾𝙊𝙐𝙍𝙎𝙀: Our first finance course is 𝙉𝙊𝙒 𝙇𝙄𝙑𝙀! Aspiring quants should use this link to enroll: https://www.socratica.com/courses/stock-options 𝙁𝙄𝙉𝘼𝙉𝘾𝙀 𝘾𝙊𝙐𝙍𝙎𝙀𝙎 from Socratica https://www.socratica.com/pages/finance-courses 🅿️ 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙣𝙚𝙘𝙩 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙪𝙨 𝙤𝙣 𝙋𝘼𝙏𝙍𝙀𝙊𝙉 https://www.patreon.com/socratica 🎬𝙉𝙀𝙒 𝘾𝙊𝙐𝙍𝙎𝙀 𝘾𝙊𝙈𝙄𝙉𝙂 𝙎𝙊𝙊𝙉 - Quantitative Finance 𝙉𝙊𝙏𝙄𝙁𝙔 𝙈𝙀 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙨𝙚 𝙡𝙖𝙪𝙣𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙨: 💌 https://snu.socratica.com/quantitative-finance What is a stock option, really? And why are quants obsessed with them? We introduce the main types of stock options. Next we break down the four basic option positions—long call, short call, long put, short put—and show how to read their payoff diagrams like a pro. You’ll learn about strike prices, leverage, hedging, and how to visualize the shape of a trade. This is your first real look into how quants build strategies out of contracts, not just stocks. 🔍 We’ll answer: What’s the difference between a call and a put? What does it mean to go long or short an option? How can a diagram tell you everything you need to know about risk and reward? 🎬𝙉𝙀𝙒 𝘾𝙊𝙐𝙍𝙎𝙀 𝘾𝙊𝙈𝙄𝙉𝙂 𝙎𝙊𝙊𝙉 - Quantitative Finance 💌 https://snu.socratica.com/quantitative-finance 𝙌𝙐𝘼𝙉𝙏𝙄𝙏𝘼𝙏𝙄𝙑𝙀 𝙁𝙄𝙉𝘼𝙉𝘾𝙀 is where math meets the market. It is a supremely rational, logical approach to finance. It involves analyzing large datasets, generating mathematical models to make predictions about how markets will behave. Then, in application of these models, traders buy and sell securities based on those predictions. In this course, you will learn the key tools used by "quants." 𝙎𝙄𝙂𝙉 𝙐𝙋 𝙉𝙊𝙒: https://snu.socratica.com/quantitative-finance 𝙒𝙀 𝙍𝙀𝘾𝙊𝙈𝙈𝙀𝙉𝘿 Paul Wilmott Introduces Quantitative Finance 📘 https://amzn.to/3Qe8zab The Big Short (movie) 🎬 https://amzn.to/4jbl5DJ 𝘼𝘽𝙊𝙐𝙏 our Instructor: Michael Harrison earned his BS in Math from Caltech, and did his graduate work in Math at UC Berkeley and University of Washington, specializing in Number Theory. A self-taught programmer, Michael taught both Math and Computer Programming at the college level. He applied this knowledge as a financial analyst (quant) and as a programmer at Google. 𝙎𝙐𝘽𝙎𝘾𝙍𝙄𝘽𝙀 to Socratica: 🦉 http://bit.ly/SocraticaSubscribe 𝙎𝙐𝙋𝙋𝙊𝙍𝙏 Socratica on Patreon: 🅿️ https://www.patreon.com/socratica We'd like to send a special thank you to our VIP Patrons at Patreon! Our patrons are the ones who make it possible for us to take the time to create new courses, doing the months of research, writing, and planning that give our courses that extra something. Tracy Karin Prell Umar Khan Thomas Myers NSS North Houston Space Society Michael Shebanow Marcos Silveira M Andrews KW Kevin B John Krawiec Jim Woodworth Jeremy Shimanek Eric Eccleston and Christopher Kemsley are our VIP Patrons! 𝙅𝙊𝙄𝙉 this channel to get access to small Youtube perks like an owl emoji when you leave comments, fancy! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCW6TXMZ5Pq6yL6_k5NZ2e0Q/join Music Licensed from SoundStripe: Code: K8UCTKNK9HRJCBE0 #Finance #StockOptions #QuantitativeFinance