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Black-Scholes without stochastics or PDEs

Pricing of Securities 2023-04-04 v2 Probability

Abstract

We show how to derive the Black-Scholes model and its generalisation to the `exchange-option' (to exchange one asset for another) via the continuum limit of the Binomial tree. No knowledge of stochastic calculus or partial differential equations is assumed, as we do not use them.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2301.09996,
  title  = {Black-Scholes without stochastics or PDEs},
  author = {Richard J. Martin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.09996},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

Added S1.7 on derivation of the delta

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