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Python for Finance

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Product type Book
Published in Apr 2014
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781783284375
Pages 408 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Yuxing Yan Yuxing Yan
Profile icon Yuxing Yan

Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Python for Finance
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Introduction and Installation of Python Using Python as an Ordinary Calculator Using Python as a Financial Calculator 13 Lines of Python to Price a Call Option Introduction to Modules Introduction to NumPy and SciPy Visual Finance via Matplotlib Statistical Analysis of Time Series The Black-Scholes-Merton Option Model Python Loops and Implied Volatility Monte Carlo Simulation and Options Volatility Measures and GARCH Index

Pricing lookback options with floating strikes


The lookback options depend on the paths (history) travelled by the underlying security. Thus, they are called path-dependent exotic options as well. One of them is named floating strikes. The payoff function of a call when the exercise price is the minimum price achieved during the life of the option is given as follows:

The Python code for this lookback option is shown as follows:

def lookback_min_price_as_strike(s,T,r,sigma,n_simulation):
    n_steps=100.    
    dt=T/n_steps
    total=0
    for j in range(n_simulation):
        min_price=100000.   # a very big number 
        sT=s
        for i in range(int(n_steps)):
            e=sp.random.normal()
            sT*=sp.exp((r-0.5*sigma*sigma)*dt+sigma*e*sp.sqrt(dt))
if sT<min_price:
                min_price=sT
            #print 'j=',j,'i=',i,'total=',total
        total+=p4f.bs_call(s,min_price,T,r,sigma)
    return total/n_simulation    

Remember that the previous function needs two...

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