Affiliation:
1. Department of Statistics and Actuarial-Financial Mathematics , University of the Aegean , Karlovassi 83200, Samos , Greece
Abstract
Abstract
There is no method of predicting the price of an option other than hedging strategies such as the binomial hedging strategy, the Black–Scholes hedging strategy and others.
We will study these two basic hedging strategies in terms of their feasibility, and we will see that the Black–Scholes hedging strategy is not feasible because this strategy demands instantaneously rebuilding the replicating portfolio.
Consequently, the real world prices of the options are not relevant at all with the Black–Scholes hedging strategy!
We will suitably redefine the binomial hedging strategy so that it will be practically useful and present other feasible and generally more effective hedging strategies with some of them practically useful for options with no tradable underlying assets.
Finally, we will mention some open questions related to the above.
Subject
Applied Mathematics,Statistics and Probability
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