Title of article :
Option pricing for non-Gaussian price fluctuations
Author/Authors :
Hagen Kleinert، نويسنده ,
Issue Information :
روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2004
Abstract :
From the path integral description of price fluctuations with non-Gaussian distributions we derive a stochastic calculus which replaces Itôʹs calculus for harmonic fluctuations. We set up a natural martingale for option pricing from the wealth balance of options, stocks, and bonds, and evaluate the resulting formula for truncated Lévy distributions. After this, an alternative formula is derived for a model of multivariant Gaussian price fluctuations which leads to non-Gaussian return distributions fitting Dow Jones data excellently from long to short time scales with a tail behavior e−x/x3/2.
Journal title :
Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
Journal title :
Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications