Price European basket options using Nengjiu Ju approximation model
Price = basketbyju(RateSpec,BasketStockSpec,OptSpec,Strike,Settle,Maturity)
Price = basketbyju(RateSpec,BasketStockSpec,OptSpec,Strike,Settle,Maturity)
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European basket options using the Nengjiu Ju approximation model.
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Annualized, continuously compounded rate term structure. For
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Character vector or |
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Scalar for the option strike price. |
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Scalar of the settlement or trade date specified as a character vector or serial date number. |
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Maturity date specified as a character vector or serial date number. |
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Price of the basket option. |
Find a European call basket option of two stocks. Assume that the stocks are currently trading at $10 and $11.50 with annual volatilities of 20% and 25%, respectively. The basket contains one unit of the first stock and one unit of the second stock. The correlation between the assets is 30%. On January 1, 2009, an investor wants to buy a 1-year call option with a strike price of $21.50. The current annualized, continuously compounded interest rate is 5%. Use this data to compute the price of the call basket option with the Ju approximation model.
Settle = 'Jan-1-2009'; Maturity = 'Jan-1-2010'; % Define RateSpec Rate = 0.05; Compounding = -1; RateSpec = intenvset('ValuationDate', Settle, 'StartDates', ... Settle, 'EndDates', Maturity, 'Rates', Rate, 'Compounding', Compounding); % Define the Correlation matrix. Correlation matrices are symmetric, and % have ones along the main diagonal. Corr = [1 0.30; 0.30 1]; % Define BasketStockSpec AssetPrice = [10;11.50]; Volatility = [0.2;0.25]; Quantity = [1;1]; BasketStockSpec = basketstockspec(Volatility, AssetPrice, Quantity, Corr); % Compute the price of the call basket option OptSpec = {'call'}; Strike = 21.5; PriceCorr30 = basketbyju(RateSpec, BasketStockSpec, OptSpec, Strike, Settle, Maturity)
This returns:
PriceCorr30 = 2.12214
Compute the price of the basket instrument for these two stocks with a correlation of 60%. Then compare this cost to the total cost of buying two individual call options:
Corr = [1 0.60; 0.60 1]; % Define the new BasketStockSpec BasketStockSpec = basketstockspec(Volatility, AssetPrice, Quantity, Corr); % Compute the price of the call basket option with Correlation = -0.60 PriceCorr60 = basketbyju(RateSpec, BasketStockSpec, OptSpec, Strike, Settle, Maturity)
This returns:
PriceCorr60 = 2.27566
The following table summarizes the sensitivity of the option to correlation changes. In general, the premium of the basket option decreases with lower correlation and increases with higher correlation.
Correlation | -0.60 | -0.30 | 0 | 0.30 | 0.60 |
Premium | 1.52830 | 1.76006 | 1.9527 | 2.1221 | 2.2756 |
Compute the cost of two vanilla 1-year call options using the Black-Scholes (BLS) model on the individual assets:
StockSpec = stockspec(Volatility, AssetPrice);
StrikeVanilla= [10;11.5];
PriceVanillaOption = optstockbybls(RateSpec, StockSpec, Settle, Maturity,...
OptSpec, StrikeVanilla)
This returns:
PriceVanillaOption = 1.0451 1.4186
Find the total cost of buying two individual call options:
sum(PriceVanillaOption)
This returns:
ans=2.4637
The total cost of purchasing two individual call options is $2.4637, compared to the maximum cost of the basket option of $2.27 with a correlation of 60%.
Nengjiu Ju. “Pricing Asian and Basket Options Via Taylor Expansion.” Journal of Computational Finance. Vol. 5, 2002.