Formulas For Vanilla Option Greeks
See also: Black-ScholesThe Greeks of vanilla options (calls and puts) under the Black–Scholes model are calculated as follows, where (phi) is the standard normal probability density function and is the standard normal cumulative distribution function. Note that the gamma and vega formulas are the same for calls and puts.
For a given: Stock Price, Strike Price, Risk-Free Rate, Annual Dividend Yield, Time to Maturity, and Volatility ...
Calls | Puts | |
---|---|---|
value | ||
delta | ||
vega | ||
theta | ||
rho | ||
gamma | ||
vanna | ||
charm | ||
speed | ||
zomma | ||
color | ||
DvegaDtime | ||
vomma | ||
Ultima | ||
dual delta | ||
dual gamma |
where
Read more about this topic: Greeks (finance)
Famous quotes containing the words formulas, vanilla, option and/or greeks:
“You treat world history as a mathematician does mathematics, in which nothing but laws and formulas exist, no reality, no good and evil, no time, no yesterday, no tomorrow, nothing but an eternal, shallow, mathematical present.”
—Hermann Hesse (18771962)
“If there be any man who thinks the ruin of a race of men a small matter, compared with the last decoration and completions of his own comfort,who would not so much as part with his ice- cream, to save them from rapine and manacles, I think I must not hesitate to satisfy that man that also his cream and vanilla are safer and cheaper by placing the negro nation on a fair footing than by robbing them.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“You dont merely give over your creativity to making a filmyou give over your life! In theatre, by contrast, you live these two rather strange lives simultaneously; you have no option but to confront the mould on last nights washing-up.”
—Daniel Day Lewis (b. 1957)
“Could truth perhaps be a woman who has reasons for not permitting her reasons to be seen? Could her name perhaps beto speak GreekBaubo?... Oh, those Greeks! They understood how to live: to do that it is necessary to stop bravely at the surface, the fold, the skin, to adore the appearance, to believe in forms, in tones, in words, in the whole Olympus of appearance! Those Greeks were superficialout of profundity!”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)