Stock, Implied, Local Volatilities and Black Scholes Pricing

Stock, Implied, Local Volatilities and Black Scholes Pricing
Author: Ilya I. Gikhman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 9
Release: 2017
Genre:
ISBN:

In this paper we present a critical point on connections between stock volatility, implied volatility, and local volatility. The essence of the Black Sholes pricing model is based on assumption that option piece is formed by no arbitrage portfolio. Such assumption effects the change of the real underlying stock by its risk neutral counterpart. Market practice shows even more. The volatility of the underlying should be also changed. Such practice calls for implied volatility. Underlying with implied volatility is specific for each option. The local volatility development presents the value of implied volatility.

Black Scholes and Beyond: Option Pricing Models

Black Scholes and Beyond: Option Pricing Models
Author: Neil Chriss
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Total Pages: 512
Release: 1997
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

An unprecedented book on option pricing! For the first time, the basics on modern option pricing are explained ``from scratch'' using only minimal mathematics. Market practitioners and students alike will learn how and why the Black-Scholes equation works, and what other new methods have been developed that build on the success of Black-Shcoles. The Cox-Ross-Rubinstein binomial trees are discussed, as well as two recent theories of option pricing: the Derman-Kani theory on implied volatility trees and Mark Rubinstein's implied binomial trees. Black-Scholes and Beyond will not only help the reader gain a solid understanding of the Balck-Scholes formula, but will also bring the reader up to date by detailing current theoretical developments from Wall Street. Furthermore, the author expands upon existing research and adds his own new approaches to modern option pricing theory. Among the topics covered in Black-Scholes and Beyond: detailed discussions of pricing and hedging options; volatility smiles and how to price options ``in the presence of the smile''; complete explanation on pricing barrier options.

Fitting Local Volatility: Analytic And Numerical Approaches In Black-scholes And Local Variance Gamma Models

Fitting Local Volatility: Analytic And Numerical Approaches In Black-scholes And Local Variance Gamma Models
Author: Andrey Itkin
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 205
Release: 2020-01-22
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9811212783

The concept of local volatility as well as the local volatility model are one of the classical topics of mathematical finance. Although the existing literature is wide, there still exist various problems that have not drawn sufficient attention so far, for example: a) construction of analytical solutions of the Dupire equation for an arbitrary shape of the local volatility function; b) construction of parametric or non-parametric regression of the local volatility surface suitable for fast calibration; c) no-arbitrage interpolation and extrapolation of the local and implied volatility surfaces; d) extension of the local volatility concept beyond the Black-Scholes model, etc. Also, recent progresses in deep learning and artificial neural networks as applied to financial engineering have made it reasonable to look again at various classical problems of mathematical finance including that of building a no-arbitrage local/implied volatility surface and calibrating it to the option market data.This book was written with the purpose of presenting new results previously developed in a series of papers and explaining them consistently, starting from the general concept of Dupire, Derman and Kani and then concentrating on various extensions proposed by the author and his co-authors. This volume collects all the results in one place, and provides some typical examples of the problems that can be efficiently solved using the proposed methods. This also results in a faster calibration of the local and implied volatility surfaces as compared to standard approaches.The methods and solutions presented in this volume are new and recently published, and are accompanied by various additional comments and considerations. Since from the mathematical point of view, the level of details is closer to the applied rather than to the abstract or pure theoretical mathematics, the book could also be recommended to graduate students with majors in computational or quantitative finance, financial engineering or even applied mathematics. In particular, the author used to teach some topics of this book as a part of his special course on computational finance at the Tandon School of Engineering, New York University.

Advanced Equity Derivatives

Advanced Equity Derivatives
Author: Sebastien Bossu
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2014-05-19
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1118750969

In Advanced Equity Derivatives: Volatility and Correlation, Sébastien Bossu reviews and explains the advanced concepts used for pricing and hedging equity exotic derivatives. Designed for financial modelers, option traders and sophisticated investors, the content covers the most important theoretical and practical extensions of the Black-Scholes model. Each chapter includes numerous illustrations and a short selection of problems, covering key topics such as implied volatility surface models, pricing with implied distributions, local volatility models, volatility derivatives, correlation measures, correlation trading, local correlation models and stochastic correlation. The author has a dual professional and academic background, making Advanced Equity Derivatives: Volatility and Correlation the perfect reference for quantitative researchers and mathematically savvy finance professionals looking to acquire an in-depth understanding of equity exotic derivatives pricing and hedging.

The Volatility Smile

The Volatility Smile
Author: Emanuel Derman
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 528
Release: 2016-09-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1118959167

The Volatility Smile The Black-Scholes-Merton option model was the greatest innovation of 20th century finance, and remains the most widely applied theory in all of finance. Despite this success, the model is fundamentally at odds with the observed behavior of option markets: a graph of implied volatilities against strike will typically display a curve or skew, which practitioners refer to as the smile, and which the model cannot explain. Option valuation is not a solved problem, and the past forty years have witnessed an abundance of new models that try to reconcile theory with markets. The Volatility Smile presents a unified treatment of the Black-Scholes-Merton model and the more advanced models that have replaced it. It is also a book about the principles of financial valuation and how to apply them. Celebrated author and quant Emanuel Derman and Michael B. Miller explain not just the mathematics but the ideas behind the models. By examining the foundations, the implementation, and the pros and cons of various models, and by carefully exploring their derivations and their assumptions, readers will learn not only how to handle the volatility smile but how to evaluate and build their own financial models. Topics covered include: The principles of valuation Static and dynamic replication The Black-Scholes-Merton model Hedging strategies Transaction costs The behavior of the volatility smile Implied distributions Local volatility models Stochastic volatility models Jump-diffusion models The first half of the book, Chapters 1 through 13, can serve as a standalone textbook for a course on option valuation and the Black-Scholes-Merton model, presenting the principles of financial modeling, several derivations of the model, and a detailed discussion of how it is used in practice. The second half focuses on the behavior of the volatility smile, and, in conjunction with the first half, can be used for as the basis for a more advanced course.

Volatility in the Black-scholes and Other Formulas

Volatility in the Black-scholes and Other Formulas
Author: Olivia Mah
Publisher:
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2011
Genre:
ISBN:

This thesis examines the compatibility between the Black-Scholes formula and stock price models with non-constant implied volatility. Our implied volatility is assumed to be a (possibly random) function of time t. Our main result shows that if the price of a call option is given by the Black-Scholes formula for finitely many strike prices, then the implied volatility is not necessarily a constant but will approach a constant if the number of strike prices increases. Moreover, our results provide us with sets of constraints limiting the acceptable values of the implied volatility parameters. We show that the more maturities we have, the more refined our constraints on the implied volatility would be. Since we do not place any assumptions on the underlying stock price process, the implied volatility process or how they are related, our results are model-free. In addition, we extend our investigation on the compatibility issue by using a more general formula than the Black-Scholes for our implied volatility. Under this more general framework, we obtain the same conclusion, namely, that implied volatility is not necessarily a constant but will approach a constant if the number of strike prices increases. We show this for the cases of three maturities and multiple maturities.

Stochastic Volatility Modeling

Stochastic Volatility Modeling
Author: Lorenzo Bergomi
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 520
Release: 2015-12-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1482244071

Packed with insights, Lorenzo Bergomi's Stochastic Volatility Modeling explains how stochastic volatility is used to address issues arising in the modeling of derivatives, including:Which trading issues do we tackle with stochastic volatility? How do we design models and assess their relevance? How do we tell which models are usable and when does c