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Advanced Concepts in Options Pricing

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Options Explained2

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Now that I have identified the key factors in options pricing (the underlying instrument market price, the strike price, the underlying instrument volatility, the time to expiration, and the risk-free rate) and examined how these factors are synthesised into an option pricing model, I will now discuss how such models are used by most traders in the options markets.

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  1. Garman, Mark B. and Steven W. Kohlhagen, “Foreign Currency Option Values”, Journal of International Money and Finance (1983), 2, pp. 231–237.

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  2. Black, Fischer, “The Pricing of Commodity Contracts”, Journal of Financial Economics, January 1976, 3: pp. 167–179.

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  3. Garman, Mark B., “Forward Prices, Option Prices and “Dividend Corrections””, Working Paper, Department of Business Administration, University of California, Berkeley, April 1983.

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  4. Cox, John S., Steven Ross and Mark Rubinstein, “Options Pricing: A Simplified Approach”, Journal of Financial Economics, September 1979, 7: pp. 637–654.

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Tompkins, R. (1994). Advanced Concepts in Options Pricing. In: Options Explained2. Finance and Capital Markets. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-13636-0_3

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