The phrase "amount of derivatives" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing financial instruments, mathematics, or any field where derivatives are quantified.
Example: "The amount of derivatives traded in the market has significantly increased over the past year."
Alternatives: "number of derivatives" or "quantity of derivatives".
The underlying amount of derivatives, called the "notional value," is in the hundreds of trillions.
One criterion for dealer members is that they trade a certain amount of derivatives.
Enron, like other energy traders, used an unknown amount of derivatives -- financial instruments whose value is determined by underlying securities -- to control trading risk.
Since the end of 2010, the amount of derivatives at Morgan Stanley's bank has grown by $2.2 trillion, on a so-called notional basis.
At one stage in its analysis, the derivatives association says using this approach might reduce by half the overall amount of derivatives in the calculation.
He said the proposal was intended to make the trading of derivatives more transparent and give regulators the ability to limit the amount of derivatives that any company can sell, or that any institution can hold.
Although there is an overwhelming amount of derivative and kitschy nonsense, I hope our opening show will be full of surprising and interesting art - rather different to the work we have all grown more familiar with".
As part of a new financial-reform law, the Commodities Futures Trading Commission CFTCC) is proposing "position limits" on the amount of derivative contracts, including futures and swaps, a trader can hold for 28 commodities.
Vast amounts of derivatives are pinned to the three-month Libor, while the rates on many adjustable-rate mortgages are based on the one-year Libor.
Only one study reports decreased amounts of derivatives of reactive oxygen metabolites but also a decreased global antioxidant capacity of blood plasma after cardiac arrest under therapeutic hypothermia [43].
Substantial variation in anthocyanin profiles and in total anthocyanin concentration, and low amounts of derivatives of anthocyanidins other than cyanidin, have been reported among carrot cultivars [ 12].
