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Nonparametric pricing and hedging of exotic derivatives

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  • Terry Lyons
  • Sina Nejad
  • Imanol Perez Arribas

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In the spirit of Arrow-Debreu, we introduce a family of financial derivatives that act as primitive securities in that exotic derivatives can be approximated by their linear combinations. We call these financial derivatives signature payoffs. We show that signature payoffs can be used to nonparametrically price and hedge exotic derivatives in the scenario where one has access to price data for other exotic payoffs. The methodology leads to a computationally tractable and accurate algorithm for pricing and hedging using market prices of a basket of exotic derivatives that has been tested on real and simulated market prices, obtaining good results.

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  • Terry Lyons & Sina Nejad & Imanol Perez Arribas, 2019. "Nonparametric pricing and hedging of exotic derivatives," Papers 1905.00711, arXiv.org.
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    1. Samuel N. Cohen & Derek Snow & Lukasz Szpruch, 2021. "Black-box model risk in finance," Papers 2102.04757, arXiv.org.
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    3. Imanol Perez Arribas & Cristopher Salvi & Lukasz Szpruch, 2020. "Sig-SDEs model for quantitative finance," Papers 2006.00218, arXiv.org, revised Jun 2020.
    4. Christa Cuchiero & Janka Moller, 2023. "Signature Methods in Stochastic Portfolio Theory," Papers 2310.02322, arXiv.org, revised Mar 2024.

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