AsianOption: Asian Option evaluation using Closed-Form solution

Description Usage Arguments Details Value Note Author(s) References Examples

View source: R/asian.R

Description

The AsianOption function evaluates an Asian-style option on a common stock using an analytic solution for continuous geometric average price. The option value, the common first derivatives ("Greeks") as well as the calling parameters are returned.

Usage

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## Default S3 method:
AsianOption(averageType, type, underlying, strike,
	                  dividendYield, riskFreeRate, maturity, 
	                  volatility, first=0, length=0, fixings=0)

Arguments

averageType

Specifiy averaging type, either "geometric" or "arithmetic"

type

A string with one of the values call or put

underlying

Current price of the underlying stock

strike

Strike price of the option

dividendYield

Continuous dividend yield (as a fraction) of the stock

riskFreeRate

Risk-free rate

maturity

Time to maturity (in fractional years)

volatility

Volatility of the underlying stock

first

to be written

length

to be written

fixings

to be written

Details

When "arithmetic" evaluation is used, only the NPV() is returned.

The well-known closed-form solution derived by Black, Scholes and Merton is used for valuation. Implied volatilities are calculated numerically.

Please see any decent Finance textbook for background reading, and the QuantLib documentation for details on the QuantLib implementation.

Value

The AsianOption function returns an object of class AsianOption (which inherits from class Option). It contains a list with the following components:

value

Value of option

delta

Sensitivity of the option value for a change in the underlying

gamma

Sensitivity of the option delta for a change in the underlying

vega

Sensitivity of the option value for a change in the underlying's volatility

theta

Sensitivity of the option value for a change in t, the remaining time to maturity

rho

Sensitivity of the option value for a change in the risk-free interest rate

dividendRho

Sensitivity of the option value for a change in the dividend yield

parameters

List with parameters with which object was created

Note

The interface might change in future release as QuantLib stabilises its own API.

Author(s)

Dirk Eddelbuettel edd@debian.org for the R interface; the QuantLib Group for QuantLib

References

http://quantlib.org for details on QuantLib.

Examples

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# simple call with some explicit parameters, and slightly increased vol:
AsianOption("geometric", "put", underlying=80, strike=85, div=-0.03,
            riskFree=0.05, maturity=0.25, vol=0.2)

Example output

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Concise summary of valuation for AsianOption 
  value   delta   gamma    vega   theta     rho  divRho 
 4.6922 -0.8031  0.0594  6.8662  0.0580 -9.2039  8.0309 

RQuantLib documentation built on May 2, 2019, 4:48 p.m.