[R-SIG-Finance] Monte Carlo Option Pricing formula

[Enrico Schumann]

Hi, Darko,

Am 02.02.2012 07:44, schrieb Roupell, Darko:
> Hi All,
>
> I am trying to cross check option implied employee option price that was derived using Monte Carlo simulation. Below is code and parameter used and after accounting for dividend yield ( 1.46%) the derived option price is 206.8843 using the code snippet provided. Approx 1 cent below 207.95 that is listed in company prospect using their Monte Carlo simulation and below parameters.
>
> As we all know number of iteration can also slightly impact the average price, but am I rightly concerned that my methodology may not be correct?

Hm, I have not really looked at your programme so I cannot comment 
whether it is correct. But we are talking about a difference of about 
half a percentage point here. Which is not much. I just ran you script 
20 times.

 > summary(results)
    Min. 1st Qu.  Median    Mean 3rd Qu.    Max.
   205.6   206.0   206.3   206.3   206.8   206.9

Admittedly, all results are all below the company's price, but 
nevertheless: they vary.

There are details that they might have done differently. For instance, 
you do not compound (if I see correctly). What if you replaced

riskFreeRate*timeToExpiry

with

(1+riskFreeRate)*timeToExpiry-1

But even if that gives you the price: from a practical point of view, 
the difference is small, really.

(Much better would be to check what would happen if the div did not turn 
out as expected, if the vol were different, etc)

Regards,
Enrico


>
> Any feedback will be appreciated.
>
>
> exercisePrice   = 0;
> timeToExpiry    = 3;        #% in years
> underlyingPrice = 490;      #% underlying in cents
> expectedVol     = 0.5;      #% expected volatility
> expectedDiv     = 0.0146;        #% expected dividend in cents
> riskFreeRate    = 0.0425;   #% interest rate
> itr = 500000              #% number of iterations
> delS = 0*array(0,itr)
>
> for( i in (1:itr))
> {
>      eps = rnorm(1)         #% random number generator
>      dS = expectedDiv*underlyingPrice+underlyingPrice*(riskFreeRate*timeToExpiry) + (underlyingPrice*expectedVol*eps*sqrt(timeToExpiry))
>      mv = dS - exercisePrice;
>
>      delS[i] = max(mv,0);
> }
>
> mean(delS)
>
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