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Financial Instrument Pricing Using C++
432 pages - hardback
John Wiley and Sons Ltd - (isbn 0-470-85509-6)
Jun. 2004


 
  Price:     102,60 EUR


   
  Author(s):     Duffy, Daniel J.
   
  Description:     This book describes in a step-by-step fashion how to create software for pricing financial instruments such as bonds, options and interest rate products in C++. Paying particular attention to issues such as C++ design and implementation, design patterns, finite difference methods and advanced software environments this is an essential reference for 'quants', financial modellers and software developers.
   
  Contents List:     PART I TEMPLATE PROGRAMMING IN C++. 1 Executive Overview of this Book. 2 A Gentle Introduction to Templates in C++. 3 An Introduction to the Standard Template Library (STL). 4 STL for Financial Engineering Applications. 5 The Property Pattern in Financial Engineering. PART II BUILDING BLOCK CLASSES. 6 Array, Vectors and Matrices. 7 Arrays and Matrix Properties. 8 Numerical Linear Algebra. 9 Modelling Functions in C++. 10 C++ Classes for Statistical Distribution. PART III ORDINARY AND STOCHASTIC DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS. 11 Numerical Solution of Initial Value Problems: Fundamentals. 12 Stochastic Processes and Stochastic Differential Equations (SDE). 13 Two-point Boundary Value Problems. 14 Matrix Iterative Methods. PART IV PROGRAMMING THE BLACK SCHOLES ENVIRONMENT. 15 An Overview of Computational Finance. 16 Introducing Finite Difference Schemes for Black Scholes: A Gentle Introduction. 17 Implicit Finite Difference Schemes for Black Scholes. 18 Special Schemes for Plain and Exotic Options. 19 My First Finite Difference Solver. 20 An Introduction to ADI and Splitting Schemes. 21 Numerical Approximation of Two-Factor Derivative Models.

PART V DESIGN PATTERNS. 22 A C++ Application for Displaying Numeric Data. 23 Object Creational Patterns. 24 Object Structural Patterns. 25 Object Behavioural Patterns. PART VI DESIGN AND DEPLOYMENT ISSUES. 26 An Introduction to Extensible Markup Language (XML). 27 Advanced XML and Programming Interface. 28 Interfacing C++ and Excel. 29 Advanced Excel Interfacing. 30 An Extended Application: Option Strategies and Portfolios. Appendices. References.

   
  Weight:     992 g    
  Dimensions:     253 x 179    
  Publisher:     John Wiley and Sons Ltd    
        John Wiley and Sons Ltd