where X(t) = σB(t) + μt is BM with drift and S(0) = S0 > 0 is the intial value. We view S(t) as the price per share at time t of a risky asset such as stock. Taking logarithms yields back the BM; X(t) = ln(S(t)/S0) = ln(S(t))− ln(S0). ln(S(t)) = ln(S0) +X(t) is normal with mean μt + ln(S0), and variance σ2t; thus, for each t, S(t) has a lognormal distribution. As we will see in Section 1.4: let...

The stock price process is modelled by a geometric Lévy process (taking into account jumps). Except for the geometric Brownian model and the geometric Poissonian model, the resulting models are incomplete and there are many equivalent martingale measures. However the model can be completed by the so called power-jump assets. By doing this we allow investment in these new assets and we can try t...

We investigate an optimal stopping time problem which arises from pricing Russian options (i.e. perpetual look-back options) on a stock whose price fluctuations are modelled by adjoining a hidden Markov process to the classical Black–Scholes geometric Brownian motion model. By extending the technique of smooth fit to allow jump discontinuities, we obtain an explicit closed-form solution. It giv...

Simultaneously long short (SLS) feedback trading strategies are known to yield positive expected gain by zero initial investment for price processes governed by, e.g., geometric Brownian motion or Merton’s jump diffusion model. In this paper, we generalize these results to positive prices with stochastically independent multiplicative growth and constant trend in discrete and continuous time as...

A family of probability densities, which has proved useful in modelling the size distributions of various phenomena, including incomes and earnings, human settlement sizes, oil-field volumes and particle sizes, is introduced. The distribution, named herein as the double Pareto-lognormal or dPlN distribution, arises as that of the state of a geometric Brownian motion (GBM), with lognormally dist...

Although Geometric Brownian Motion and Jump Diffusion Models have largely dominated the literature on asset price modeling, studies of empirical stock data Ghana Stock Exchange led to conclusion that there are some stocks in which return processes consistently depart from these models theory as well its statistical properties. This paper gives a fundamental review development model based pure j...