net.finmath.montecarlo.assetderivativevaluation.products

Class BermudanOption

java.lang.Object

net.finmath.montecarlo.AbstractMonteCarloProduct

net.finmath.montecarlo.assetderivativevaluation.products.AbstractAssetMonteCarloProduct

net.finmath.montecarlo.assetderivativevaluation.products.BermudanOption

All Implemented Interfaces:

ProductInterface

public class BermudanOption
extends AbstractAssetMonteCarloProduct

This class implements the valuation of a Bermudan option paying
N(i) * (S(T(i)) - K(i)) at T(i),
when exercised in T(i), where N(i) is the notional, S is the underlying, K(i) is the strike and T(i) the exercise date. The code "demos" the two prominent methods for the valuation of Bermudan (American) products:

• The valuation may be performed using an estimation of the conditional expectation to determine the exercise criteria. Apart from a possible foresight bias induced by the Monte-Carlo errors, this give a lower bound for the Bermudan value.
• The valuation may be performed using the dual method based on a minimization problem, which gives an upper bound.

Nested Class Summary

Nested Classes

Modifier and Type	Class and Description
static class	BermudanOption.ExerciseMethod

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
BermudanOption(double[] exerciseDates, double[] notionals, double[] strikes) Create a Bermudan option paying N(i) * (S(T(i)) - K(i)) at T(i), when exercised in T(i), where N(i) is the notional, S is the underlying, K(i) is the strike and T(i) the exercise date.
BermudanOption(double[] exerciseDates, double[] notionals, double[] strikes, BermudanOption.ExerciseMethod exerciseMethod) Create a Bermudan option paying N(i) * (S(T(i)) - K(i)) at T(i), when exercised in T(i), where N(i) is the notional, S is the underlying, K(i) is the strike and T(i) the exercise date.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
RandomVariableInterface	getValue(double evaluationTime, AssetModelMonteCarloSimulationInterface model) This method returns the value random variable of the product within the specified model, evaluated at a given evalutationTime.

Methods inherited from class net.finmath.montecarlo.assetderivativevaluation.products.AbstractAssetMonteCarloProduct

getValue

Methods inherited from class net.finmath.montecarlo.AbstractMonteCarloProduct

getCurrency, getValue, getValue, getValues, getValues, getValuesForModifiedData, getValuesForModifiedData, getValuesForModifiedData, getValuesForModifiedData, toString

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

BermudanOption

public BermudanOption(double[] exerciseDates,
                      double[] notionals,
                      double[] strikes)

Create a Bermudan option paying N(i) * (S(T(i)) - K(i)) at T(i), when exercised in T(i), where N(i) is the notional, S is the underlying, K(i) is the strike and T(i) the exercise date.

Parameters:

exerciseDates - The exercise dates (T(i)), given as doubles.

notionals - The notionals (N(i)) for each exercise date.

strikes - The strikes (K(i)) for each exercise date.

BermudanOption

public BermudanOption(double[] exerciseDates,
                      double[] notionals,
                      double[] strikes,
                      BermudanOption.ExerciseMethod exerciseMethod)

Create a Bermudan option paying N(i) * (S(T(i)) - K(i)) at T(i), when exercised in T(i), where N(i) is the notional, S is the underlying, K(i) is the strike and T(i) the exercise date.

Parameters:

exerciseDates - The exercise dates (T(i)), given as doubles.

notionals - The notionals (N(i)) for each exercise date.

strikes - The strikes (K(i)) for each exercise date.

exerciseMethod - The exercise method to be used for the estimation of the exercise boundary.

Method Detail

getValue

public RandomVariableInterface getValue(double evaluationTime,
                                        AssetModelMonteCarloSimulationInterface model)
                                 throws CalculationException

This method returns the value random variable of the product within the specified model, evaluated at a given evalutationTime. Cash-flows prior evaluationTime are not considered.

Specified by:

getValue in class AbstractAssetMonteCarloProduct

Parameters:

evaluationTime - The time on which this products value should be observed.

model - The model used to price the product.

Returns:

The random variable representing the value of the product discounted to evaluation time.

Throws:

CalculationException - Thrown if the valuation fails, specific cause may be available via the cause() method.