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The Complete Guide to Option Pricing Formulas

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Long-established as a definitive resource by Wall Street professionals, The Complete Guide to Option Pricing Formulas has been revised and updated to reflect the realities of today's options markets. The Second Edition contains a complete listing of virtually every pricing formula_ all presented in an easy-to-use dictionary format, with expert author commentary and ready-to-use programming code. The Second Edition of this classic guide now includes more than 60 new option models and formulas…extensive tables providing an overview of all formulas…new examples and applications…and an updated CD containing all pricing formulas, with VBA code and ready-to-use Excel spreadsheets. The volume also features several new chapters covering such things as: option sensitivities, discrete dividend, commodity options, and two chapters on numerical methods covering trees, finite difference and Monte Carlo Simulation. The new edition of The Complete Guide to Option Pricing Formulas offers quick access to: Options Pricing Overview Black-Scholes-Merton Black-Scholes-Merton Greeks Analytical Formulas for American Options Exotic Options Single Asset Exotic Options on Two Assets Black-Scholes-Merton Adjustments and Alternatives Trees and Finite Difference Methods Monte Carlo Simulation Options on Stocks that Pay Discrete Dividends Commodity and Energy Options Interest Rate Derivatives Volatility and Correlation Distributions Some Useful Formulas: Interpolation, Interest Rates, and Risk-Reward Measures This all-in-one options pricing guide contains a numerical example or a table with values for each option pricing formula. The book also includes a helpful glossary of notations, as well as an extensive bibliography of related books and articles.
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Note that the author is pricing European options, not American options. The standard BSM formula is for European options, not American. If anyone wants to dive deep into a lot of the different models out there, check out The Complete Guide to Option Pricing Formulas by Espen Haug(1).

His site has some wonderful material too(2). I especially like his ‘Exotic Option Fantasy Land’(3)

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(1) https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Guide-Option-Pricing-Formula...

(2) http://www.espenhaug.com/articles.html

(3) http://www.espenhaug.com/manhat.html

buschkowitz
Thanks for the interesting link to Espen Haug!

For non-financial engineers, there is a subtle difference between the two option flavors. Holders of an American option can exercise their right to buy/sell the underlying asset at any time while European option holders can only exercise at expiration date.

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