Designed to bridge the gap between theory and practice, this successful book is regarded as "the bible" in trading rooms throughout the world. The books covers both derivatives markets and risk management, including credit risk and credit derivatives; forward, futures, and swaps; insurance, weather, and energy derivatives; and more. For options traders, options analysts, risk managers, swaps traders, financial engineers, and corporate treasurers.

The author has written a nice, lively elementary text on mathematical finance. This book can serve as a excellent launching point into the topic. Hull starts out with several chapters on the basics of the derivative contracts in his study. The contracts introduced are forward and futures contracts, interest rate swaps, and equity options. The basic definitions of each contingency contract is given, as well as characteristics of the markets where these contracts trade. Some basic trading strategies are also studied.

This is a fantastic book. For people who wants to learn about derivatives and finantial markets it helps a lot, a classical book on Derivatives. A must read for anyone that is interested in learning how derivatives work and how to price them. The author masters in explaning it a lot of examples, comprehensive language and a lot of exercises. So if you're interesting about finance, go get this book!

As a reference or a second book on stochastic calculus, Meyer is outstanding. In a formal, highly rigorous manner, he develops stochastic calculus, all the while focusing on topics of primary interest to financial engineers. It is an excellent introduction and reference on stochastic calculus.

This book is indeed meant for learning. Just do not take it as your first entry into Stochastic Calculus. Take it as a second reading. It is complete, thorough and well, very well written.

It will teach you. A lot. All theorems are cross-referenced, so you will not have any "it is obvious that" etc. Theorems are proved, over and over again, until they hammer themselves in your head.

It is a fine achievement, if you want something quick and dirty read something else.

The prolonged boom in the US and European stock markets has led to increased interest in the mathematics of security markets, most notably in the theory of stochastic integration. This text gives a rigorous development of the theory of stochastic integration as it applies to the valuation of derivative securities. It includes all the tools necessary for readers to understand how the stochastic integral is constructed with respect to a general continuous martingale.