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Foil 153 Path Integral Approach to Derivative Valuation

From Web Application and Services Overview as of June96 NASA ICASE Tutorial -- June 10-13 1996. by Geoffrey Fox * See also color IMAGE

We developed new algorithms for risk neutral valuation of derivative financial instruments
Theoretical prices of derivative instruments are obtained by discounting their expected payoffs under the equivalent martingale measure using money market interest rate.
The core algorithm is Path Integral Monte Carlo which used to generate arbitrary distributions of underlying risk factors (stocks, bonds, short interest rates, commodities, indices etc.)
The advantage of the new algorithm is that sensitivities of derivative prices with respect to changes in all model parameters are computed in a single simulation.
  • This is crucial for effective hedging.
Parallel version of the algorithm is written in C and MPI and relies on task parallelism and functional decomposition (could also use HPF)
Monte Carlo samples are generated on multiple processors in embarrassingly parallel fashion


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