September 4th, 2008, 9:48 pm
I don't think you quite follow what moltabile was saying. Firstly, you need to decide what your underlying process is. This might be just geometric brownian motion with constant volatility and drift, or it might be something more complex.Secondly, you need to decide what your instrument is - eg european or american, vanilla, barrier, etc.Only then can you ask yourself how you'll price it. On the whole, I'd rather split it into Analytic, PDE, Monte Carlo.Now, if you're saying "black scholes", it is confusing because this is stating all three - the underlying process, the instrument (european call or put) and the method (analytic).