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Price Equity, FX, Commodity, or Energy Instruments

Create equity, FX, commodity, or energy instrument object, associate the object with a model, and specify pricing method

An equity derivative is a contract whose value is at least partly derived from one or more underlying equity, foreign exchange (FX), commodity, or energy securities. This toolbox provides functionality to price, compute sensitivity and hedging analysis to many equity securities. You can price vanilla, Asian, lookback, barrier, and spread options with pricing models that include lattice models, Monte Carlo simulations, multiple closed-form solutions, and finite differences methods.

The object-based framework supports a workflow for creating instruments, models, and pricer objects to price financial instruments. Using these objects, you can price interest-rate, inflation, equity, commodity, FX, or credit derivative instruments. The object-based workflow is an alternative to pricing financial instruments using functions. Working with modular objects for instruments, models, and pricers, you can easily reuse these objects to compare instrument prices for different models and pricing engines. You can use the object-based workflow to price a single instrument or to price a collection of instruments in a portfolio. For more information on the workflow, see Get Started with Workflows Using Object-Based Framework for Pricing Financial Instruments.

Create an equity, FX, or commodity instrument object using fininstrument, then associate a model using finmodel, and then specify a pricing method using finpricer.

Functions

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fininstrumentCreate specified instrument object type
finmodelCreate specified model object type
finpricerCreate pricing method
setExercisePolicySet exercise policy for FixedBondOption, FloatBondOption, or Vanilla instrument
fairdeliveryCompute fair delivery price of underlying asset for BondFuture, CommodityFuture, EquityIndexFuture, or FXFuture instrument
cashsettleCompute cash settlement for BondFuture, CommodityFuture, EquityIndexFuture, or FXFuture instrument
priceCompute price for interest-rate, equity, or credit derivative instrument with Analytic pricer
priceCompute price for equity instrument with FiniteDifference pricer
priceCompute price for equity instrument with FFT pricer
priceCompute price for equity instrument with NumericalIntegration pricer
priceCompute price for equity instrument with VannaVolga pricer
priceCompute price for equity instrument with AssetMonteCarlo pricer
priceCompute price for equity instrument with ReplicatingVarianceSwap pricer
priceCompute price for equity instrument with AssetTree pricer
priceCompute price for interest-rate instrument with Future pricer

Live Editor Tasks

Calibrate Pricing Model Calibrate option pricing model in the Live Editor

Objects

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VanillaVanilla instrument object
LookbackLookback instrument
PartialLookbackPartialLookback instrument
BarrierBarrier instrument object
DoubleBarrierDoubleBarrier instrument object
AsianAsian instrument object
SpreadSpread instrument object
VarianceSwapVarianceSwap instrument object
CliquetCliquet instrument object
BinaryBinary instrument object
TouchTouch instrument object
DoubleTouchDoubleTouch instrument object
ConvertibleBondConvertibleBond instrument object
CommodityFutureCommodityFuture instrument object
FXFutureFXFuture instrument object
EquityIndexFutureEquityIndexFuture instrument object
BlackScholesCreate BlackScholes model object for an Asian, Barrier, DoubleBarrier, Lookback, PartialLookback, Spread, Vanilla, Touch, DoubleTouch, Cliquet, or Binary instrument
BachelierCreate Bachelier model object for Vanilla, Spread, or Binary instrument
HestonCreate Heston model object for Vanilla, Asian, Barrier, DoubleBarrier, Lookback, PartialLookback, VarianceSwap, Touch, DoubleTouch, Cliquet, or Binary instrument
BatesCreate Bates model object for Vanilla, Asian, Barrier, DoubleBarrier, Lookback, PartialLookback, Touch, DoubleTouch, Cliquet, or Binary instrument
DupireCreate Dupire model object for local volatility for Vanilla instrument
MertonCreate Merton model object for Vanilla, Asian, Barrier, DoubleBarrier, Lookback, PartialLookback, OneTouch, DoubleTouch, Cliquet, or Binary instrument

AssetTree Pricer for Vanilla, Barrier, Asian, or Lookback Instruments

AssetTreeCreate AssetTree pricer object for Vanilla, Barrier, Asian, or Lookback instrument

Monte Carlo, Finite Difference, Numerical Integration, FFT, Replicating Variance Swap Pricers for Vanilla, Barrier, Cliquet, or VarianceSwap Instruments

AssetMonteCarloCreate AssetMonteCarlo pricer object for equity instruments using BlackScholes, Merton, Heston, or Bates model
FiniteDifferenceCreate FiniteDifference pricer object for Barrier, DoubleBarrier, or Vanilla instrument using a BlackScholes, Heston, Merton, or Bates model
NumericalIntegrationCreate NumericalIntegration pricer object for Vanilla instrument using Heston, Bates, or Merton model
FFTCreate FFT pricer object for Vanilla instrument using Merton, Heston, or Bates model
VannaVolgaCreate VannaVolga pricer object for Vanilla, Barrier, DoubleBarrier, Touch, or DoubleTouch instrument using BlackScholes model
ReplicatingVarianceSwapCreate ReplicatingVarianceSwap pricer object for VarianceSwap instrument using ratecurve object

Closed-Form Pricers for Asian, Lookback, Spread, Cliquet, and Vanilla Instruments

BjerksundStenslandCreate BjerksundStensland pricer object for Vanilla or Spread instrument using BlackScholes model
BlackScholesCreate BlackScholes pricer object for Vanilla, Barrier, Touch, DoubleTouch, or Binary instrument using BlackScholes model
ConzeViswanathanCreate ConzeViswanathan pricer object for Lookback instrument using BlackScholes model
GoldmanSosinGattoCreate GoldmanSosinGatto pricer object for Lookback instrument using BlackScholes model
HestonCreate Heston pricer object for VarianceSwap instrument using Heston model
HeynenKatCreate HeynenKat pricer object for PartialLookback instrument using BlackScholes model
IkedaKunitomoCreate IkedaKunitomo pricer object for DoubleBarrier instrument using BlackScholes model
KemnaVorstCreate KemnaVorst pricer object for Asian instrument using BlackScholes model
KirkCreate Kirk pricer object for Spread instrument using BlackScholes model
LevyCreate Levy pricer object for Asian instrument using BlackScholes model
RollGeskeWhaleyCreate RollGeskeWhaley pricer object for American exercise Vanilla instrument using BlackScholes model
RubinsteinCreate Rubinstein pricer object for Cliquet instrument using BlackScholes model
TurnbullWakemanCreate TurnbullWakeman pricer object for Asian instrument using BlackScholes model

Future Pricer for CommodityFuture, EquityIndexFuture, or FXFuture Instruments

FutureCreate Future pricer object for BondFuture, CommodityFuture, EquityIndexFuture, and FXFuture using ratecurve object

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