Programming/Kdb/Labs/Option pricing

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Recall the celebrated Black-Scholes equation

Here

  • is a time in years; we generally use as now;
  • is the value of the option;
  • is the price of the underlying asset at time ;
  • is the volatility — the standard deviation of the asset's returns;
  • is the annualized risk-free interest rate, continuously compounded;
  • is the annualized (continuous) dividend yield.

The solution of this equation depends on the payoff of the option — the terminal condition. In particular, if at the time of expiration, , the payoff is given by , in other words, the option is a European call option, then the value of the option at time is given by the Black-Scholes formula