[R] uniroot() problem

[megh]

Sorry, in my previous post I forgot to include strike price, which is K =
1160



megh wrote:
> 
> Thanks for this reply. Here I was trying to calculate implied volatility
> using BS formula. This is my code :
> 
> oo = 384.40 # traded option price
>     uu = 1563.25 # underlying price
>     tt = 0.656 # time to maturity in year
>     ii = 2.309/100 # interest rate, annualized
>     th.price = function(x)
>        {
>         d1 = (log(uu/K) + (ii + x^2/2)*tt) / (x*sqrt(tt)); d2 = d1 -
> x*sqrt(tt)
>         option.price = uu * pnorm(d1) - K * exp(-ii*tt) * pnorm(d2)
>         return(option.price - oo)
>        }
> 
> uniroot(th.price, c(-20, 20), tol=1/10^12)
> 
> I got following result :
> 
>> uniroot(th.price, c(-20, 20), tol=1/10^12)
> $root
> [1] 6.331672e-13
> 
> $f.root
> [1] 36.28816
> 
> $iter
> [1] 55
> 
> $estim.prec
> [1] 7.385592e-13
> 
> Hence using implied volatility, difference between traded price and
> theoretical price is coming as high as 36.28816, even I increse the
> precision level. Any idea how to crack this problem?
> 
> 
> 
> Albyn Jones wrote:
>> 
>> One can't tell for sure without seeing the function, but I'd guess  
>> that you have   a numerical issue.  Here is an example to reflect upon:
>> 
>>> f=function(x) (exp(x)-exp(50))*(exp(x)+exp(50))
>>> uniroot(f,c(0,100))
>> $root
>> [1] 49.99997
>> 
>> $f.root
>> [1] -1.640646e+39
>> 
>> $iter
>> [1] 4
>> 
>> $estim.prec
>> [1] 6.103516e-05
>> 
>>> .Machine$double.eps^0.25/2
>> [1] 6.103516e-05
>> 
>> uniroot thinks it has converged, at least in relative terms.  Note  
>> that the estimated precision is related to the machine epsilon, used  
>> in the default value for "tol".  try fiddling with the tol argument.
>> 
>>> uniroot(f,c(0,100),tol=1/10^12)
>> $root
>> [1] 50
>> 
>> $f.root
>> [1] 1.337393e+31
>> 
>> $iter
>> [1] 4
>> 
>> $estim.prec
>> [1] 5.186962e-13
>> 
>> albyn
>> 
>> 
>> Quoting megh <megh700004 at yahoo.com>:
>> 
>>>
>>> I have a strange problem with uniroot() function. Here is the result :
>>>
>>>> uniroot(th, c(-20, 20))
>>> $root
>>> [1] 4.216521e-05
>>>
>>> $f.root
>>> [1] 16.66423
>>>
>>> $iter
>>> [1] 27
>>>
>>> $estim.prec
>>> [1] 6.103516e-05
>>>
>>> Pls forgive for not reproducing whole code, here my question is how
>>> "f.root"
>>> can be 16.66423? As it is finding root of a function, it must be near
>>> Zero.
>>> Am I missing something?
>>>
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