Greeks

Volatility Calibration via Automatic Local Regression ArXiv ID: 2509.16334 “View on arXiv” Authors: Ruozhong Yang, Hao Qin, Charlie Che, Liming Feng Abstract Managing exotic derivatives requires accurate mark-to-market pricing and stable Greeks for reliable hedging. The Local Volatility (LV) model distinguishes itself from other pricing models by its ability to match observable market prices across all strikes and maturities with high accuracy. However, LV calibration is fundamentally ill-posed: finite market observables must determine a continuously-defined surface with infinite local volatility parameters. This ill-posed nature often causes spiky LV surfaces that are particularly problematic for finite-difference-based valuation, and induces high-frequency oscillations in solutions, thus leading to unstable Greeks. To address this challenge, we propose a pre-calibration smoothing method that can be integrated seamlessly into any LV calibration workflow. Our method pre-processes market observables using local regression that automatically minimizes asymptotic conditional mean squared error to generate denoised inputs for subsequent LV calibration. Numerical experiments demonstrate that the proposed pre-calibration smoothing yields significantly smoother LV surfaces and greatly improves Greek stability for exotic options with negligible additional computational cost, while preserving the LV model’s ability to fit market observables with high fidelity. ...

Tensor train representations of Greeks for Fourier-based pricing of multi-asset options ArXiv ID: 2507.08482 “View on arXiv” Authors: Rihito Sakurai, Koichi Miyamoto, Tsuyoshi Okubo Abstract Efficient computation of Greeks for multi-asset options remains a key challenge in quantitative finance. While Monte Carlo (MC) simulation is widely used, it suffers from the large sample complexity for high accuracy. We propose a framework to compute Greeks in a single evaluation of a tensor train (TT), which is obtained by compressing the Fourier transform (FT)-based pricing function via TT learning using tensor cross interpolation. Based on this TT representation, we introduce two approaches to compute Greeks: a numerical differentiation (ND) approach that applies a numerical differential operator to one tensor core and an analytical (AN) approach that constructs the TT of closed-form differentiation expressions of FT-based pricing. Numerical experiments on a five-asset min-call option in the Black-Sholes model show significant speed-ups of up to about $10^{“5”} \times$ over MC while maintaining comparable accuracy. The ND approach matches or exceeds the accuracy of the AN approach and requires lower computational complexity for constructing the TT representation, making it the preferred choice. ...

Gradient-enhanced sparse Hermite polynomial expansions for pricing and hedging high-dimensional American options ArXiv ID: 2405.02570 “View on arXiv” Authors: Unknown Abstract We propose an efficient and easy-to-implement gradient-enhanced least squares Monte Carlo method for computing price and Greeks (i.e., derivatives of the price function) of high-dimensional American options. It employs the sparse Hermite polynomial expansion as a surrogate model for the continuation value function, and essentially exploits the fast evaluation of gradients. The expansion coefficients are computed by solving a linear least squares problem that is enhanced by gradient information of simulated paths. We analyze the convergence of the proposed method, and establish an error estimate in terms of the best approximation error in the weighted $H^1$ space, the statistical error of solving discrete least squares problems, and the time step size. We present comprehensive numerical experiments to illustrate the performance of the proposed method. The results show that it outperforms the state-of-the-art least squares Monte Carlo method with more accurate price, Greeks, and optimal exercise strategies in high dimensions but with nearly identical computational cost, and it can deliver comparable results with recent neural network-based methods up to dimension 100. ...

Semi-analytic pricing of American options in time-dependent jump-diffusion models with exponential jumps ArXiv ID: 2308.08760 “View on arXiv” Authors: Unknown Abstract In this paper we propose a semi-analytic approach to pricing American options for time-dependent jump-diffusions models with exponential jumps The idea of the method is to further generalize our approach developed for pricing barrier, [“Itkin et al., 2021”], and American, [“Carr and Itkin, 2021; Itkin and Muravey, 2023”], options in various time-dependent one factor and even stochastic volatility models. Our approach i) allows arbitrary dependencies of the model parameters on time; ii) reduces solution of the pricing problem for American options to a simpler problem of solving a system of an algebraic nonlinear equation for the exercise boundary and a linear Fredholm-Volterra equation for the the option price; iii) the options Greeks solve a similar Fredholm-Volterra linear equation obtained by just differentiating Eq. (25) by the required parameter. Once done, the American option price is presented in close form. ...