Financial Derivatives
FAM General Questions
General Math Trivia
100

A contract between two parties based on an underlying asset

What is a financial derivative?

100

What PV stands for in this class

What is present value?

100

The number one is a prime number (true/false).

What is false.

200

Three types of financial derivatives

What are (any 3 of 4) futures, options, swaps, or forwards?

200

An online tool that we use in this class to make mathematical models

What is Excel?

200

(n - 2) × 180° (equation for...)

What is the formula for a n-gon (polygon)?

300
To reduce risk of future price variations.
What is hedging?
300

When investing on margin, the minimum amount of active margin required. 

What is maintenance margin?
300

The inventor(s) of calculus. 

Who are Issac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.

400

The perspective that is an intermediary between the buyer and the seller of a financial derivative

What is the market-maker perspective?

400

An annuity thats first payment is immediately after purchase

What is an annuity due?

400

2.7182818284.. (is known as...)

What is Euler's number?

500

People who take on more risk for profit, reduce risk, and take on no risk for profit. 

What are speculators, hedgers, and arbitrageurs. 

500

Mr. Garritano's first name. 

What is Christopher?

500

The first ten digits of pi. 

What is 3.141592653...

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