Tuesday, September 3, 2019

finance mathematics - Finding the extrinsic value of an option with conditions



Background: Consider a spread option with the payoff max, where P, G are underlying prices and HR is a constant.


Let's also assume, that the correlation between assets is \text{corr}(\ln(P_t), \ln(G_t)) = 1.



Let's additionally assume that the underlying variables are jointly elliptical.


Question: Characterize the conditions under which the extrinsic value of the option is equal to zero. That is, find the conditions under which: E_{0}^{*}[\max (P_{T} - HR\times G_T, 0)] = \max (P_{0} - HR\times G_0, 0).




Answer



Find the conditions under which:


E_{0}^{*}[\max (P_{T} - HR\times G_T, 0)] = \max (P_{0} - HR\times G_0, 0)


We have a no-brainer solution - the condition that the drift and volatility of both P and G is zero, which means P and G are constants in time.


Second valid condition - the option is deep in the money or deep out of the money, such that chance of moneyness changing sign is remote (i.e. the volatility of P and G are not large enough to provide a meaningful chance of moneyness changing sign). Essentially, the payoff behaves as a forward, rather than an option.


The drifts of the two assets also need to cancel out.So either both the drifts should be zero, or the drift of P should be HR times the drift of G.


That's pretty much it, as far as I can see.



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