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tyskland88
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Barrier option data

October 26th, 2010, 1:00 pm

Hi,Where can I find data on barrier options? I need data on barrier options and vanilla options where both have the same underlying. Would I find what I'm looking for in Bloomberg? Perhaps some older research where this kind of data has been used?
 
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Barrier option data

October 29th, 2010, 2:14 pm

In general, barrier options data is hard to get (if you don't work for a market-making investment bank) as the market is OTC. You could try Bloomberg but when I looked a couple of years ago, I found nothing of much interest (Bloomberg might be better now). I know of only one paper which has simultaneous barrier options (Double-No-Touch), vanilla options, spot and yield-curve data in it. It is a paper by Peter Carr and John Crosby related to barrier options on fx. However, even this paper, only has limited data on USD/STG so it is pretty sparse if you're plannng some of sort of historical analysis.The Carr and Crosby paper is published in Quantitative Finance Vol 10 Issue 10 (2010) p1115 ? 1136See also their websites:http://math.nyu.edu/research/carrp/rese ... sby.co.uk/