1. The derivatives market is complex because derivative buying and selling includes many things like financial contracts, including debt and structured debts and deposits, swaps, other obligations, futures, options, floors, caps, and forwards, and various combinations of these. Reporting may be hard to understand because derivatives are often forward looking and there can be many parts to the statement. They also have no real value themselves.

To improve the methods for valuing derivatives so that the reporting becomes more transparent. make the value of these available as soon as they change on financial websites open to the public.

Question: Don't we have useful models for valuing derivatives?