Stephen Sapp
Assistant Professor of Finance
Richard Ivey School of Business
University of Western Ontario
1151 Richmond Street
London, ON N6A 3K7
Canada
Phone: (519) 661-3006
email : ssapp@ivey.uwo.ca
Here are links to several non-technical pieces that talk about different aspects of derivative securities. They are from a series written by Don M. Chance, Professor of Finance at the Center for the Study of Futures and Options Markets at Virginia Tech, and are in html format. Feel free to have a look at some or all of the pieces.
The principal topics in each piece are:
Option Pricing -- the Black-Scholes model
Option Pricing -- the Binomial model
Option Pricing -- other/numerical methods
Misconceptions about Covered Call Writing