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Financial Engineering

Python projects in financial engineering.

This is an application of Monte Carlo methods [1] to the pricing of options on stocks when the underlying asset has occasional jumps in the trajectories. Merton [2] describes such jumps as "idiosynchratic shocks affecting an individual company but not the market as a whole". The jump component makes the distribution of prices leptokurtic (high peak, heavy tails), a feature typical of market data.

The model builds on the standard Brownian motion, which can also be generated using the willow tree.

Link to Python module

merton-jump-diffusion-model

[1] Glasserman, P. (2003) Monte Carlo Methods in Financial Engineering, Springer Applications of Mathematics, Vol. 53

[2] Merton, R.C. (1976) Option pricing when underlying stock returns are discontinuous, Journal of Financial Economics, 3:125-144

Dependencies

financial-engineering requires Python 3.5+, and is built on top of the following libraries:

  • NumPy: v. 1.13+
  • SciPy: v. 0.19+
  • Matplotlib: v. 2.0+
  • Seaborn: v. 0.8+

Installation

The source code is currently hosted on GitHub at: https://github.com/federicomariamassari/financial-engineering. Either clone or download the git repository. To clone the repository, on either Terminal (macOS) or Command Prompt (Windows) enter the folder inside which you want the repository to be, possibly changing directory with cd <desired path>, and execute:

$ git clone https://github.com/federicomariamassari/financial-engineering.git

Contributing

This is a small but continuously evolving project open to anyone willing to contribute—simply fork the repository and modify its content. Any improvement, in terms of code speed and readability, or inclusion of new models (such as those from Glasserman's book), is more than welcome. For git commits, it is desirable to follow Udacity's Git Commit Message Style Guide.

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