Option Pricing with Mean Reversion and Stochastic Volatility

Option Pricing with Mean Reversion and Stochastic Volatility
Author: Hoi Ying Wong
Publisher:
Total Pages: 25
Release: 2009
Genre:
ISBN:

Many underlying assets of option contracts, such as currencies, commodities, energy, temperature and even some stocks, exhibit both mean reversion and stochastic volatility. This paper investigates the valuation of options when the underlying asset follows a mean-reverting lognormal process with stochastic volatility. A closed-form solution is derived for European options by means of Fourier transform. The proposed model allows the option pricing formula to capture both the term structure of futures prices and the market implied volatility smile within a unified framework. A bivariate trinomial lattice approach is introduced to value path-dependent options with the proposed model. Numerical examples using European options, American options and barrier options demonstrate the use of the model and the quality of the numerical scheme.

Applications of Fourier Transform to Smile Modeling

Applications of Fourier Transform to Smile Modeling
Author: Jianwei Zhu
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2009-10-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3642018084

This book addresses the applications of Fourier transform to smile modeling. Smile effect is used generically by ?nancial engineers and risk managers to refer to the inconsistences of quoted implied volatilities in ?nancial markets, or more mat- matically, to the leptokurtic distributions of ?nancial assets and indices. Therefore, a sound modeling of smile effect is the central challenge in quantitative ?nance. Since more than one decade, Fourier transform has triggered a technical revolution in option pricing theory. Almost all new developed option pricing models, es- cially in connection with stochastic volatility and random jump, have extensively applied Fourier transform and the corresponding inverse transform to express - tion pricing formulas. The large accommodation of the Fourier transform allows for a very convenient modeling with a general class of stochastic processes and d- tributions. This book is then intended to present a comprehensive treatment of the Fourier transform in the option valuation, covering the most stochastic factors such as stochastic volatilities and interest rates, Poisson and Levy ́ jumps, including some asset classes such as equity, FX and interest rates, and providing numerical ex- ples and prototype programming codes. I hope that readers will bene?t from this book not only by gaining an overview of the advanced theory and the vast large l- erature on these topics, but also by gaining a ?rst-hand feedback from the practice on the applications and implementations of the theory.

Modular Pricing of Options

Modular Pricing of Options
Author: Jianwei Zhu
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2000
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9783540679165

The sound modeling of the smile effect is an important issue in quantitative finance as, for more than a decade, the Fourier transform has established itself as the most efficient tool for deriving closed-form option pricing formulas in various model classes. This book describes the applications of the Fourier transform to the modeling of volatility smile, followed by a comprehensive treatment of option valuation in a unified framework, covering stochastic volatilities and interest rates, Poisson and Levy jumps, including various asset classes such as equity, FX and interest rates, as well as various numberical examples and prototype programming codes. Readers will benefit from this book not only by gaining an overview of the advanced theory and the vast range of literature on these topics, but also by receiving first-hand feedback on the practical applications and implementations of the theory. The book is aimed at financial engineers, risk managers, graduate students and researchers.

Option Pricing Under Regime Switching (analytical, PDE, and FFT Methods)

Option Pricing Under Regime Switching (analytical, PDE, and FFT Methods)
Author: Mohammad Yousef Akhavein Sohrabi
Publisher:
Total Pages: 83
Release: 2011
Genre:
ISBN:

Although globally used in option pricing, the Black-Scholes model has not been able to reflect the evolution of stocks in the real world. A regime-switching model which allows jumps in the underlying asset prices and the parameters of the corresponding stochastic process is more accurate. We evaluate the analytical solution for pricing of European options under a two-state regime switching model. Both the convergence of the analytical solution and the feature of implied volatility are investigated through numerical examples.

Volatility Surface and Term Structure

Volatility Surface and Term Structure
Author: Kin Keung Lai
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 102
Release: 2013-09-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1135006997

This book provides different financial models based on options to predict underlying asset price and design the risk hedging strategies. Authors of the book have made theoretical innovation to these models to enable the models to be applicable to real market. The book also introduces risk management and hedging strategies based on different criterions. These strategies provide practical guide for real option trading. This book studies the classical stochastic volatility and deterministic volatility models. For the former, the classical Heston model is integrated with volatility term structure. The correlation of Heston model is considered to be variable. For the latter, the local volatility model is improved from experience of financial practice. The improved local volatility surface is then used for price forecasting. VaR and CVaR are employed as standard criterions for risk management. The options trading strategies are also designed combining different types of options and they have been proven to be profitable in real market. This book is a combination of theory and practice. Users will find the applications of these financial models in real market to be effective and efficient.

Numerical Analysis Of Stochastic Volatility Jump Diffusion Models

Numerical Analysis Of Stochastic Volatility Jump Diffusion Models
Author: Abdelilah Jraifi
Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
Total Pages: 104
Release: 2014-06-30
Genre:
ISBN: 9783659564895

In the modern economic world, the options contracts are used because they allow to hedge against the vagaries and risks refers to fluctuations in the prices of the underlying assets. The determination of the price of these contracts is of great importance for investors.We are interested in problems of options pricing, actually the European and Quanto options on a financial asset. The price of that asset is modeled by a multi-dimentional jump diffusion with stochastic volatility. Otherwise, the first model considers the volatility as a continuous process and the second model considers it as a jump process. Finally in the 3rd model, the underlying asset is without jump and volatility follows a model CEV without jump. This model allow better to take into account some phenomena observed in the markets. We develop numerical methods that determine the values of prices for these options. We first write the model as an integro-differential stochastic equations system "EIDS," of which we study existence and unicity of solutions. Then we relate the resolution of PIDE to the computation of the option value.

Highly Efficient Option Valuation Under the Double Jump Framework with Stochastic Volatility and Jump Intensity Based on Shannon Wavelet Inverse Fourier Technique

Highly Efficient Option Valuation Under the Double Jump Framework with Stochastic Volatility and Jump Intensity Based on Shannon Wavelet Inverse Fourier Technique
Author: Chun-Sung Huang
Publisher:
Total Pages: 22
Release: 2017
Genre:
ISBN:

In this paper, we explore the highly efficient valuation of financial options under a double exponential jump framework, with stochastic volatility and jump intensity. In particular, we investigate both the accuracy and efficiency of pricing options using the novel Shannon wavelet inverse Fourier technique (SWIFT). Resulting prices are compared to the benchmark Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) and, its more recent alternative, the Fourier Cosine (COS) expansion prices. We demonstrate that not only is the SWIFT method more efficient, it is also accurate with exponential error convergence for both call and put valuations. Finally, further evidence of model robustness and stability is presented through a price sensitivity analysis, where we investigate the significant impact of changing model parameters to the resulting option values.

A Mean-Reverting Stochastic Volatility Option-Pricing Model with an Analytic Solution

A Mean-Reverting Stochastic Volatility Option-Pricing Model with an Analytic Solution
Author: Henrik Andersson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 45
Release: 2002
Genre:
ISBN:

In this paper we derive a closed form approximation to a stochastic volatility option-pricing model and propose a variant of EGARCH for parameter estimation. The model thereby provides a consistent approach to the problem of option pricing and parameter estimation. Using Swedish stocks, the model provides a good fit to the heteroscedasticity prevalent in the time-series. The stochastic volatility model also prices options on the underlying stock more accurately than the traditional Black-Scholes formula. This result holds for both historic and implied volatility. A large part of the volatility smile that is observed for options of different maturity and exercise prices is thereby explained.