PRICING FLOATING-STRIKE LOOKBACK OPTIONS

  • Lee, Hang-Suck (Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, Soongsil University)
  • Published : 2005.11.04

Abstract

A floating-strike lookback call option gives the holder the right to buy at the lowest price of the underlying asset. Similarly, a floating-strike lookback put option gives the holder the right to sell at the highest price. This paper will derive explicit pricing formulas for these floating-strike lookback options with flexible monitoring periods. The monitoring periods of these options start at an arbitrary date and end at another arbitrary date before maturity.

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