Pricing options using implied trees: Evidence from FTSE-100 options

Pricing Options Using Implied Trees: Evidence from Ftse-100 Options

of High Performance Computing are gratefully acknowledged. The authors also wish to thank the two referees for their insightful comments that helped to improve the this article in significant ways. MATLAB (a mathematical, financial, and statistical software language) was used for the programming throughout the study. *Correspondence author, School of Business, Singapore Management University, 4...

Pricing Options Using Implied Trees:

Previously, few, if any, comparative tests of performance of Jackwerth’s (1997) generalized binomial tree (GBT) and Derman and Kani (1994) implied volatility tree (IVT) models were done. In this paper, we propose five different weight functions in GBT and test them empirically compared to both the Black-Scholes model and IVT. We use the daily settlement prices of FTSE-100 index options from Jan...

Valuing Real Options using Implied Binomial Trees

A real option on a commodity is valued using an implied binomial tree (IBT) calibrated using commodity futures options prices. Estimating an IBT in the absence of spot options (the norm for commodities) allows real option models to be calibrated for the first time to market-implied probability distributions for commodity prices. Also, the existence of long-dated futures options means that good ...

An Alternative Method of Options Pricing by Implied Trees

Evolutionary Arbitrage For FTSE-100 Index Options and Futures

The objective in this paper is to develop and implement FGP-2 (Financial Genetic Programming) on intra daily tick data for stock index options and futures arbitrage in a manner that is suitable for online trading when windows of profitable arbitrage opportunities exist for short periods from one to ten minutes. Our benchmark for FGP-2 is the textbook rule for detecting arbitrage profits. This r...