306027 (v.1) WASM Hedging and Options 601

Area:	WASM Mineral Economics Teaching Area
Credits:	12.5
Contact Hours:	16.0
The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline.
Lecture:	4 x 4 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s):	306031 (v.1) WASM Resource Sector Finance 602 or any previous version
Syllabus:	Options definitions and trading strategies - volatility and hedging option positions and option sensitivity to market conditions. Hedging - methodologies and discipline, hedging in practice, real life situations and how to deal with them. Hedging simulation. Actual tuition undertaken as 16 hours of class in a four day module.
To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement.
Field of Education:	091901 Economics
SOLT (Online) Definitions*:	Not Online *Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type:	Grade/Mark

Availability

Year	Location	Period	Internal	Partially Online Internal	Area External	Central External	Fully Online
2008	Bentley Campus	Trimester 1	Y
2008	Bentley Campus	Study Period 11	Y

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External