| A lot of people have sought a complete
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| | Financial engineers are well paid
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| guide to option pricing formula. We would
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| | professionals holding advanced degrees in
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| attempt to provide here a comprehensive
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| | mathematics or physics. There are
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| useful guide. The inventor of Brownian
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| | sometimes referred to as rocket scientist
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| motion, Bachelier also is the root of the
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| | or quants. These top financial engineers
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| "Option pricing theory" also called
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| | design and implement derivatives pricing
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| "Black-Scholes theory" or "derivatives
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| | models.
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| pricing theory".
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| | The Black Scholes approach or technique
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| This risk neutral approach or technique
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| | is sometimes called the differential
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| also opened a door to other options of
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| | equations approach because they employ
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| valuation methods that used the Monte
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| | partial differential equations. These
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| Carlo method of binominal trees to model
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| | differential equations often have
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| future asset values. It does not attempt
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| | closed-form solutions which lead to quite
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| to provide so called realistic expected
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| | simple pricing formulas. Examples include
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| returns and discount rates in its
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| | the original Black Scholes formula or the
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| analysis. Users are able to treat all
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| | Monte Carlo method used to solve
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| assets of a financial nature as having
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| | equations numerically.
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| expected returns that are equaled to the
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| | The risk neutral approach is also called
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| risk free rate. All cash flows can be
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| | the stochastic calculus approach, because
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| discounted at the risk free rate. No
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| | it tends to involve detailed use of
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| investor can be risk neutral, so the risk
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| | stochastic calculus with changes of
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| neutral technique is not a true
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| | measure between a "real world" and a
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| reflection of the real world, still if
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| | "risk neutral" world. It could also lead
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| correctly used it produces correct option
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| | to closed form solutions, although
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| prices.
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| | numerical solutions are more usual. It is
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| Initial mention of risk neutral valuation
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| | relatively more flexible than the
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| was by Cox and Ross. It lay somewhere in
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| | Black-Scholes approach. At some instances
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| the midst of their paper on pricing
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| | it is effective when used to price
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| options with jump processes, released
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| | derivatives that the Black-Scholes
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| 1976. Three years later, realizing the
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| | approach could not solve.
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| importance of the technique they teamed
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| | Methods known for financial engineering
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| up with Mark Rubinstein to publish a
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| | have now been extended to fixed income
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| paper that uses risk neutral valuation to
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| | derivatives; this normally requires the
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| develop the technique of binomial trees.
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| | modeling of entire term structures. They
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| Progressively other authors formalized
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| | have at other instances been extended to
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| the mathematics of risk neutral as a
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| | include commodities markets, at this
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| method of equivalent martingale measures.
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| | markets risk neutral valuation becomes
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| This is the main method used for
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| | quite more of a problem.
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| derivatives in complete markets.
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