fun sites on derivatives...

Here is the best site I have found explaining some of the fun stuff people are doing:


http://us.hsbc.com/business/treasury/derivatives/swaption.asp


And here is another, more basic one, for fun:


http://www.enron.com/wholesale/lumber/swaps.html


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Here is a good place to learn about options:


http://www.finpipe.com/introhedge.htm


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Some fun and innovative equity stuff :


http://www.warrants.socgen.com/au/medias/pdf/socgen.pdf

Seeing as I never heard of any of it:)


If I were these SG people, I'd be spending about a billion dollars lobbying Washington to buy some sort of a social-security privatization contraptions from them. Maybe they can start a relationship with a US front bank or something, if it ever happens.


Plus, people in Europe seem to like 1) mountaineering, and 2) cradle-to-grave safety nets;)


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