AmericanPutPriceBinomial: Binomial Put Price

Description Usage Arguments Value Author(s) References Examples

Description

Estimates the price of an American Put, using the binomial approach.

Usage

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AmericanPutPriceBinomial(stockPrice, strike, r, sigma, maturity, numberSteps)

Arguments

stockPrice

Stock price of underlying stock

strike

Strike price of the option

r

Risk-free rate

sigma

Volatility of the underlying stock and is in annualised term

maturity

The term to maturity of the option in days

numberSteps

The number of time-steps in the binomial tree

Value

Binomial American put price

Author(s)

Dinesh Acharya

References

Dowd, Kevin. Measuring Market Risk, Wiley, 2007.

Lyuu, Yuh-Dauh. Financial Engineering & Computation: Principles, Mathematics, Algorithms, Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Examples

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# Estimates the price of an American Put
   AmericanPutPriceBinomial(27.2, 25, .03, .2, 60, 30)

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