Assessment of Options Investments by Ranking Analysis

Book description

A powerful new technique for evaluating the profit potential of complex option combinations with nonlinear payoffs.

Why is an additional analytic tool needed? Generally, evaluation of investment decisions is based on comparing realized profits (variability, drawdown, and other risk measures) with their corresponding expected values. While such an approach is appropriate for financial instruments possessing linear payoff functions, it has numerous drawbacks when applied to evaluating complex option combinations with nonlinear payoffs....

Product information

  • Title: Assessment of Options Investments by Ranking Analysis
  • Author(s): Sergey Izraylevich, Vadim Tsudikman
  • Release date: July 2010
  • Publisher(s): Pearson
  • ISBN: 9780132487078