Ep. 97: Adam Iqbal on Carry Trades, Volatility and Trading Options
- By Bilal Hafeez
- 1 min read
Adam is a Managing Director and Global Head of G10 FX Options Trading at Goldman Sachs. Prior to this, he was an FX Volatility Portfolio Manager at PIMCO, and he has worked as a vanilla and exotic FX options trader at Barclays Investment Bank in London. He is the author of Foreign Exchange: Practical Asset Pricing and Macroeconomic Theory (forthcoming, 2022), and Volatility: Practical Options Theory (2018). Adam holds a PhD in financial mathematics and economics from Imperial College London, an MSc in applied mathematics from Oxford University, and an MSci, and BA in physics from Cambridge University. In this podcast we discuss:
- Why investors and traders need to understand finance theory
- What risk premia strategies are
- Understanding risk premium through umbrellas and rainy weather
- Common risk premia strategies in FX markets
- Where currency volatility comes from
- How to learn about options markets
- Rules of thumb for trading options
- When to use options
- Books that influenced Adam: Asset Pricing (Cochrane) and End of Alchemy (King)
You can get Adam’s latest book Foreign Exchange: Practical Asset Pricing and Macroeconomic Theory here and his book on FX options here.
You can read the transcript for this podcast here.
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