金价数字 call:计算 ITM 概率
Cash-or-nothing
题目详情
Let denote the gold price.
Now is time , and time is six months from now.
The naive (and incorrect) step is to conclude that a volatility of per annum translates to a six-month volatility of .
In fact, volatility grows with the square root of the term. Thus, per year translates to about per half-year.
How do we find the probability that the option finishes in-the-money, ?
With there is no drift in the risk-neutral world, so the distribution of is centered on , with standard deviation roughly .
解析
题目用近似: 且价格半年波动约为
以 为中心,标准差约 。所求
即
若是现金或无数字期权(支付 1)且 ,价格就等于该概率。