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The Fourier-cosine expansion (COS) method is used to price European options numerically in a very efficient way. To apply the COS method, one has to specify two parameters: a truncation range for the density of the log-returns and a number…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2024-04-02 Gero Junike

This paper proposes the option-implied Fourier-cosine method, iCOS, for non-parametric estimation of risk-neutral densities, option prices, and option sensitivities. The iCOS method leverages the Fourier-based COS technique, proposed by…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2024-02-13 Evgenii Vladimirov

The Fourier cosine expansion (COS) method is used for pricing European options numerically very fast. To apply the COS method, a truncation range for the density of the log-returns need to be provided. Using Markov's inequality, we derive a…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2022-01-31 Gero Junike , Konstantin Pankrashkin

In this work, the Fourier-cosine series (COS) method has been combined with the Boundary Element Method (BEM) for a fast evaluation of barrier option prices. After a description of its use in the Black and Scholes (BS) model, the focus of…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2023-01-31 A. Aimi , C. Guardasoni , L. Ortiz-Gracia , S. Sanfelici

Fourier pricing methods such as the Carr-Madan formula or the COS method are classic tools for pricing European options for advanced models such as the Heston model. These methods require tuning parameters such as a damping factor, a…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2024-12-09 Gero Junike , Hauke Stier

The COS method proposed in Fang and Oosterlee (2008), although highly efficient, may lack robustness for a number of cases. In this paper, we present a Stable pricing of call options based on Fourier cosine series expansion. The Stability…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2017-01-10 Chunfa Wang

The paper is an extended and modified version of the preprint S.Boyarchenko and S.Levendorski\u{i} ``Correct implied volatility shapes and reliable pricing in the rough Heston model". We combine a modification of the Adams method with the…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2025-08-26 Svetlana Boyarchenko , Marco de Innocentis , Sergei Levendorskiĭ

The COS method is a very efficient way to compute European option prices under L\'evy models or affine stochastic volatility models, based on a Fourier Cosine expansion of the density, involving the characteristic function. This note shows…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2025-07-22 Fabien LeFloc'h

We provide a unified framework to obtain numerically certain quantities, such as the distribution function, absolute moments and prices of financial options, from the characteristic function of some (unknown) probability density function…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2026-02-17 Gero Junike , Hauke Stier

Characteristic functions of several popular classes of distributions and processes admit analytic continuation into unions of strips and open coni around $\mathbb{R}\subset \mathbb{C}$. The Fourier transform techniques reduces calculation…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2018-08-17 Svetlana Boyarchenko , Sergei Levendorskiĭ

We provide a rigorous convergence proof demonstrating that the well-known semi-analytical Fourier cosine (COS) formula for the inverse Fourier transform of continuous probability distributions can be extended to discrete probability…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-10 Xiaoyu Shen , Fang Fang , Chengguang Liu

We present an alternative formula to price European options through cosine series expansions, under models with a known characteristic function such as the Heston stochastic volatility model. It is more robust across strikes and as fast as…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2020-06-04 Fabien Le Floc'h

We clarify the relations among different Fourier-based approaches to option pricing, and improve the B-spline probability density projection method using the sinh-acceleration technique. This allows us to efficiently separate the control of…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2021-09-21 Svetlana Boyarchenko , Sergei Levendorskiĭ , J. Lars Kirkby , Zhenyu Cui

This paper extends the Singular Fourier--Pad\'e (SFP) method proposed by Chan (2018) to pricing/hedging early-exercise options--Bermudan, American and discrete-monitored barrier options--under a L\'evy process. The current SFP method is…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2019-09-17 Tat Lung , Chan

We apply a new numerical method, the singular Fourier-Pad\'e (SFP) method invented by Driscoll and Fornberg (2001, 2011), to price European-type options in L\'evy and affine processes. The motivation behind this application is to reduce the…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2017-11-15 Tat Lung Chan

We propose a Finance-Informed Neural Network (FINN) for option pricing and hedging that integrates financial theory directly into machine learning. Instead of training on observed option prices, FINN is learned through a self-supervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Amine M. Aboussalah , Xuanze Li , Cheng Chi , Raj Patel

We propose a convolution-FFT method for pricing European options under the Heston model that leverages a continuously differentiable representation of the joint characteristic function. Unlike existing Fourier-based methods that rely on…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2025-12-08 Xiang Gao , Cody Hyndman

This paper concerns the design of a Fourier based pseudospectral numerical method for the model of European Option Pricing with transaction costs under Exponential Utility derived by Davis, Panas and Zariphopoulou. Computing the option…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-19 Javier de Frutos , Victor Gaton

This paper examines the problem of pricing spread options under some models with jumps driven by Compound Poisson Processes and stochastic volatilities in the form of Cox-Ingersoll-Ross(CIR) processes. We derive the characteristic function…

Pricing of Securities · Quantitative Finance 2014-09-04 Pablo Olivares , Matthew Cane

In this paper, we consider option pricing in a framework of the fractional Heston-type model with $H>1/2$. As it is impossible to obtain an explicit formula for the expectation $\mathbb E f(S_T)$ in this case, where $S_T$ is the asset price…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-07-04 Yuliya Mishura , Anton Yurchenko-Tytarenko
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