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Cuchulainn
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Re: iv for all and all for iv

June 9th, 2023, 4:32 pm

Just read this thread today and got

Volatility = 0.04
Opt_Price=9.01002030921698e-25
Implied_Volatilty =0.0400000003783122

using a biscetion with a smart initial bounds guess.
It converged using a tol 1e-30 after 24 steps
Same as my answer.
 
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Re: iv for all and all for iv

June 10th, 2023, 2:12 pm

With the same data above, SHGO algo fails to find a minimizer point when K > 290. Suggests infeasible region.

https://shgo.readthedocs.io/en/stable/docs/README.html
What's infeasible about it? Arbitrary large K is fine theoretically and has a strictly positive call value. 
 
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Re: iv for all and all for iv

June 10th, 2023, 3:41 pm

With the same data above, SHGO algo fails to find a minimizer point when K > 290. Suggests infeasible region.

https://shgo.readthedocs.io/en/stable/docs/README.html
What's infeasible about it? Arbitrary large K is fine theoretically and has a strictly positive call value. 
I just started with SGHO as a black box. Here is the runnable Python code.
What's strange is that iv == 0.02 for K > 290, no idea why, maybe because bounds = [0.02, 0.4] and it gets stuck at the lower limit?
import numpy as np
from scipy import optimize
from scipy.stats import norm

# Option data, vol to be computed
# Stress test case
S = 100.0
K = 320 # K > 290 not OK
r = 0.0
b = r
x = 0.04 #sig/vol
T = 1
q = 0

# Cumulative normal N(0,1)
def N(x):
    return norm.cdf(x)

# Black Scholes formula for a plain call option
def BS(x):
    d1 = (np.log(S/K) + (r - q + x**2/2)*T) / (x*np.sqrt(T))
    d2 = d1 - x* np.sqrt(T)
    return S*np.exp(-q*T) * N(d1) - K * np.exp(-r*T)* N(d2)

bounds = [(0.02,0.4)] 
marketValue = BS(x); print ("option price ", marketValue)
f = lambda x: (BS(x) - marketValue)*(BS(x) - marketValue)

def MySGHO(method, nSamples, nIter):
    result = optimize.shgo(f, bounds, n = nSamples, iters = nIter, sampling_method =method)    
    print("roots ", result)
    print("global minimum  ", result.x)   
    print("function value: ", result.fun + marketValue) 

# Testing
print('*******simplicial********')
MySGHO('simplicial', 100, 10)

print('*******sobol********')
#MySGHO('sobol', 128, 3)

print('*******halton********')
#MySGHO('halton', 128, 3)
 
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Re: iv for all and all for iv

June 11th, 2023, 8:14 pm

Forget SHGO.
It's very good, but was not built for iv.
Last edited by Cuchulainn on June 11th, 2023, 8:26 pm, edited 1 time in total.
 
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Re: iv for all and all for iv

June 11th, 2023, 8:19 pm

Now, this article by Dan Stefanica and Rados Radoicic of Baruch College, Lexington at 24th Street, NYU approximate N(x) by Polya's 1949 A(x) . I typed the code in C++ and and passes with flying colours till now.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm ... id=2908494


const double S = 100;
const double K = 15000; 
const double r = 0.00;
const double b = r;
const double sig = 0.004; 
const double T = 10.0;
 
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Re: iv for all and all for iv

August 23rd, 2023, 6:30 am

I hope that my recent paper is helpful for the discussion: Choi et al. (2023),  https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.08758 .


The paper finds quite many new IV bounds (both upper and lower) for a given price (this is main theme of the paper).
Then, it also formulates a new Newton-Raphon method on the log price to handle very small option premiums properly. The iteration formula is quite simple (see Eq. (30) in the paper), and it always converges as long as the initial guess is a lower bound. (The proof is a bit tedious. Just see the left side of Figure 1. The log price is a concave function of sigma.) 
So we use a lower bound found in the earlier part of the paper (specifically L3 in Eq (23)). 

I actually tested the famous example in this thread (S0=1, K=1.5, sigma=4%) and reported it in the paper (See Section 3.3 Numerical Example(. The new NR method reaches an IV value within 2e-11 just after three iterations. 

 
 
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Re: iv for all and all for iv

August 24th, 2023, 4:04 am

You joined this forum before Cuchulainn (with 18,934 posts) and you have bided your time until now to say something. I’m guessing that may be a record. Respect! Oh, and your paper looks nice!
 
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Re: iv for all and all for iv

August 24th, 2023, 10:21 am

Nice paper jaesmine, I also had proposed the idea of solving on the log price to speed up calculations a while ago in a blog post (and based on the nice guess of Dan Stefanica and Rados Radoicic).
https://quantsrus.github.io/post/implied_volatility_algorithms_go_julia/
 
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Re: iv for all and all for iv

August 25th, 2023, 12:34 am

You joined this forum before Cuchulainn (with 18,934 posts) and you have bided your time until now to say something. I’m guessing that may be a record. Respect! Oh, and your paper looks nice!
I joined a while ago (guess I am old enough). I often checked this forum but did not post much. Recently, this thread got my attention as I was working on that paper.
 
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Re: iv for all and all for iv

August 25th, 2023, 12:37 am

Nice paper jaesmine, I also had proposed the idea of solving on the log price to speed up calculations a while ago in a blog post (and based on the nice guess of Dan Stefanica and Rados Radoicic).
https://quantsrus.github.io/post/implied_volatility_algorithms_go_julia/
jherekhealy, thanks for pointing me to your post. I am not surprised that the log price idea has been tried before. My paper's contribution, if any, would be establishing convergence of the NR method when the initial guess is a lower bound.
 
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Re: iv for all and all for iv

August 25th, 2023, 9:25 am

Here is the C++ "get it working" code I wrote based on the Dan Stefanica and Rados Radoicic paper.

As I mentioned, I tried many exotic and  no so exotic methods but this one seems to the best.
// DS_RR.cpp
// 
/* An Explicit Implied Volatility Formula
International Journal of Theoreticaland Applied Finance, Vol. 20, no. 7, 2017


Dan Stefanica
Baruch College, City University of New York

Rados Radoicic
CUNY Baruch College

Date Written : January 30, 2017
*/
// 
// https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2908494
//
// Programmed in C++ by Daniel J.Duffy 2023
// Datasim Education BV 2023
//



#include <cmath>
#include <iostream>

using value_type = double;

// Call parameters
/*
const value_type S = 2080;
const value_type K = 3050;
const value_type r = 0.02;
const value_type b = 0;
const value_type sig = 0.1097904;
const value_type T = 0.5;

*/

const value_type S = 100;
const value_type K = 15000; 
const value_type r = 0.08;
const value_type b = r;
const value_type sig = 0.0004; 
const value_type T = 1000.0;


// ATM + small vol OK
// OTM, ITM + small vol not OK
// r == vol == 0 is essentially a degenerate case??
/*
const value_type S = 60;
const value_type K = 65;
const value_type r = 0.08;
const value_type b = r;
const value_type sig = 0.302; // small vol has issues < 0.1 !!
const value_type T = 0.25;
*/

/*
const value_type S = 100;
const value_type K = 6.30957;
const value_type r = 0.0;
const value_type b = r;
const value_type sig = 0.3409436;
const value_type T = 1.0;
*/
// Polya's 1949 approximation to N(x)
value_type G(value_type x)
{
	return 1 / (exp(-358 * x / 23 + 111 * atan(37 * x / 294) + 1));
	value_type y = std::sqrt(1.0 - std::exp(-2.0 * x * x / 3.141592653589793));
	if (x >= 0.0)
		return 0.5 * (1.0 + y);
	else
		return 0.5 * (1.0 - y);
}

value_type N(value_type x)
{ // The approximation to the cumulative normal distribution

	//return cndN(x);
	return G(x);
}

value_type OptionPrice(value_type x)
{ // Call price, x == sig

	value_type tmp = x * std::sqrt(T);

	value_type d1 = (std::log(S / K) + (r + (x * x) * 0.5) * T) / tmp;
	value_type d2 = d1 - tmp;
	return (S * std::exp((b - r) * T) * N(d1)) - (K * std::exp(-r * T) * N(d2));
}

value_type Cm = OptionPrice(sig); // Market price
// Stefanica and Radoicic volatiliy estimator
value_type y = std::log(S / K);
value_type alpha = Cm / (K * std::exp(-r * T));
value_type R = 2 * alpha - std::exp(y) + 1.0;

value_type pi = 3.141592653589793;
value_type t1 = std::exp((1.0 - 2 / pi) * y);
value_type t2 = std::exp((-1.0 + 2 / pi) * y);
value_type A = std::pow(t1 - t2, 2);
value_type B1 = 4.0 * (std::exp(-y) + std::exp(-2 * y / pi));
value_type B2 = -2.0 * (std::exp(-y) * (t1 + t2) * (std::exp(2 * y) + 1.0 - R * R));
value_type B = B1 + B2;
value_type C = std::exp(-2.0 * y)* (R * R - std::pow(std::exp(y) + 1.0, 2) - R * R);

value_type beta = 2.0 * C / (B + std::sqrt(B * B + 4.0 * A*C));
value_type gamma = -0.5 * pi * std::log(beta);

value_type compute()
{
	if (y >= 0.0)
	{
		value_type C0 = K * std::exp(-r * T) * (std::exp(y) * A * (std::sqrt(2 * y) - 0.5));
		value_type sig;
		if (Cm <= C0)
		{
			sig = (std::sqrt(gamma + y) - std::sqrt(gamma - y)) / std::sqrt(T);
		}
		else
		{
			sig = (std::sqrt(gamma + y) + std::sqrt(gamma - y)) / std::sqrt(T);
		}
	}
	else
	{
		value_type C0 = K * std::exp(-r * T) * (std::exp(y)/2 - A * (std::sqrt(2 * y) - 0.5));
		value_type sig;
		if (Cm <= C0)
		{
			sig = (-std::sqrt(gamma + y) + std::sqrt(gamma - y)) / std::sqrt(T);
		}
		else
		{
			sig = (std::sqrt(gamma + y) - std::sqrt(gamma - y)) / std::sqrt(T);
		}
	}

	return sig;

}


int main()
{

	std::cout << "DS/RR: " << compute() << '\n';
}
 
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Re: iv for all and all for iv

August 27th, 2023, 7:34 am

I hope that my recent paper is helpful for the discussion: Choi et al. (2023),  https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.08758 .


The paper finds quite many new IV bounds (both upper and lower) for a given price (this is main theme of the paper).
Then, it also formulates a new Newton-Raphon method on the log price to handle very small option premiums properly. The iteration formula is quite simple (see Eq. (30) in the paper), and it always converges as long as the initial guess is a lower bound. (The proof is a bit tedious. Just see the left side of Figure 1. The log price is a concave function of sigma.) 
So we use a lower bound found in the earlier part of the paper (specifically L3 in Eq (23)). 

I actually tested the famous example in this thread (S0=1, K=1.5, sigma=4%) and reported it in the paper (See Section 3.3 Numerical Example(. The new NR method reaches an IV value within 2e-11 just after three iterations. 

 
This looks like NR with some upfront work to find an initial seed (which is always the main challenge/bottleneck).  
Mention is made of iterating a number of times to get a desired accuracy which may affect performance.
 
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Re: iv for all and all for iv

August 31st, 2023, 3:50 pm

If it takes more than 2-3 iterations for a simple BS model IV, then one is not bringing to bear everything that is already known about how to get there faster. Speaking of infeasible regions, it is always useful to first check using certain boundary conditions whether an IV calculation is even possible, I think Hull's texts used to point that out. Very, very good bang for the buck comes from finding a good seed calculation. I use a modified Brent method as per Numerical Recipes.  
 
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Re: iv for all and all for iv

September 1st, 2023, 6:53 pm

Yeah, kind of begging the question "let's pretend we are near the solution and then we can fnd it".  Kind of depressing. Spent time fixing silly problems MBS by BDT with initial yield 5% (because from a book....)
Improvements to NR are homotopy and continuation methods which converge with 'bad' seeds.

And fixed point always converges.
 
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Re: iv for all and all for iv

September 1st, 2023, 7:05 pm