Options Primer for Financial Engineering Course Testimonials

[Weijie Diao]

This primer course is of high quality. The exercises pushed me to truly understand the basics instead of learning by rote. The content is well-structured, and the knowledge it taught is fundamental and clear-cut.
Of course it is not perfect, since this is a newly opened course. But overall I enjoyed most of my time and I learnt a lot from it.

 

[Furong Huang]

Overall great class! I have learned more about options and feel more confident in applying MFE graduate programs.

 

[Fu Yunlong]

Great instruction material and excellent student-focused tutors. I benefit a lot from forum discussions with peers and tutors as well. Looking forward to adding topics on American options in the future.

 

[statquant]

What I like most about this option course is its content. It covers a broad range of topics, starting from self-financing replicating portfolio, then risk neutral pricing, all the way up to Black-Scholes PDE. Mathematical expositions are very clear, finance concepts are well explained.
I just hope this course can progress faster. It took me more than 5 months to finish it. It would've been nice if it were just about 3 months.

 

[Alexander Chen]

I really like this course. It bridges the gap between theory and practice. I learned a lot from the lectures and encountered plenty of interview questions related to the course content.

 

[Yhc]

Yes, this is a very good course that actually exceeds my expectations. This course includes not only basic knowledge of options but also teaches some applications of numerical computation.

 

[Lipeng Yu]

This is a great course in general. It covers all core topics in option pricing. The interview question part is especially fantastic, which you can rarely find in other courses. The lecture material is really detailed and substantial. And the homework is very comprehensive and practical. Both lecturer and TA are very patient and helpful. Therefore, it meets my original goal for taking this course.

 

[omartwahir]

The course was extremely well thought out and put together. The lectures and notes we're extremely clear and the homework and quizzes were easily doable because of this. The grading of the homework provided great comments and help made this subject come very intuitive to me.

 

[Xi Chen]

The overall course quality is very good. The materials touch upon many interview questions and include a final practical project about implied volatility estimation.

 

[Molin Zhang]

I think the course is of very high quality and help me have a first but deep understanding of options.
The major content is very clear and focuses on the most important topics.
Homework provides enough training.
Interview Questions are very helpful.
TA response is immediate.
Final exam is of high quality!

 

[saranreddy]

The content of the course was excellent and it gave me a practical rather than just theoretical view on options. One of the best decision I made is to take this course.

 

[_xd]

I think the course is a solid refresher/introduction on basic option theory. It does help me grow my intuitions on this topic as suggested by the course title.

 

[Yingying_Zhu]

This course is really great. It helps me improve the understanding of options. I think theoretical knowledge is the base of everything and this course definitely provides a solid foundation for future studying about options. Even though I was a bit rushed to the end because of some personal reasons, I did really enjoy it.

 

[Heqian Wang]

This course is well-structured. Intuitions behind the options arbitrage, options trading strategies, and BS model are well explained. The analytical proofs are succinct and elegant. Interview questions are directly relevant to quant job interviews.
I feel more confident in applying to MFE programs. Many thanks to Dan, Rados, and QuantNet.

 

[CarterZ]

Learned quite a lot about options. I wanted a clearer structure of my options knowledge and it was exactly what I wanted.

 

[Jianwei Su]

I found it online and it attracted me, so after I watched the sample videos and I decided to study it. This course really helped me a lot to understand options.

 

[Zehao Yang]

This course is really significant for both graduate studies and entry interview questions. Professor Dan Dan Stefanica offers excellent content with his expertise, where you can hear from the street. My TA Rados Radoicic provided feedback usually within half a day. He checks the assignments very carefully. I really recommend this course.

I finished C++ for Financial Engineering course from QuantNet and decided to take this course. A Baruch alumnus recommended I take this course to prepare for interviews.

 

[Paul Lopez]

I quite liked the course overall. My previous experience in the past has always been with numerical methods for pricing and risking options in a black scholes or similar framework, and I really just wanted an intuitive look at the different pieces that make up options. This intuitive framework with focusing on put call parity and asymptotic analysis as you take certain parameters to extreme values is exactly what I was looking for. I think the wide variety of interview questions alone makes the course extremely important and valuable for students and experienced professionals alike.

 

[Jiehou]

I have learned a range of things about option concepts, pricing, trading, etc. from this course and have been able to integrate this knowledge in a step-by-step training program. I think the pace and content of this course is excellent. What impressed me the most was some of the arbitrage strategies on convex and the derivation of the Black-Scholes pricing model from the most basic expectation and risk-neutral principles. All in all, an excellent and memorable course.

 

[D_KACHHARA]

A great course created by Professor Dan and the Quantnet Team. Professor Rados was really helpful through the course.