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Estimating risks of option books using neural-SDE market models

Computational Finance 2022-02-16 v1 Probability Risk Management Statistical Finance Machine Learning

Abstract

In this paper, we examine the capacity of an arbitrage-free neural-SDE market model to produce realistic scenarios for the joint dynamics of multiple European options on a single underlying. We subsequently demonstrate its use as a risk simulation engine for option portfolios. Through backtesting analysis, we show that our models are more computationally efficient and accurate for evaluating the Value-at-Risk (VaR) of option portfolios, with better coverage performance and less procyclicality than standard filtered historical simulation approaches.

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@article{arxiv.2202.07148,
  title  = {Estimating risks of option books using neural-SDE market models},
  author = {Samuel N. Cohen and Christoph Reisinger and Sheng Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.07148},
  year   = {2022}
}