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Expected Background

In general, this guide assumes experience working with financial derivatives and some familiarity with the underlying models.

In designing Financial Derivatives Toolbox documentation, we assume your title is similar to one of these:

• Analyst, quantitative analyst

• Risk manager

• Portfolio manager

• Fund manager, asset manager

• Financial engineer

• Trader

• Student, professor, or other academic

We also assume your background, education, training, and responsibilities match some aspects of this profile:

• Finance, economics, perhaps accounting

• Engineering, mathematics, physics, other quantitative sciences

• Bachelor's degree minimum; MS or MBA likely; Ph.D. perhaps; CFA

• Comfortable with probability theory, statistics, and algebra

• Understand linear or matrix algebra, calculus, and differential equations

• Previously done traditional programming (C, Fortran, etc.)

• Responsible for instruments or analyses involving large sums of money

• Perhaps new to MATLAB

Product Overview

Portfolio Creation

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