Optimal Timing to Purchase Options

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2010-08-21

arxiv.org/abs/1008.3650v3

SIAM J. Finan. Math. 2(1): 768-793, 2011

Economy

Quantitative Finance

Pricing of Securities

24 pages, 6 figures; http://dx.doi.org/10.1137/100809386

Scientific paper

10.1137/100809386

We study the optimal timing of derivative purchases in incomplete markets. In our model, an investor attempts to maximize the spread between her model price and the offered market price through optimally timing her purchase. Both the investor and the market value the options by risk-neutral expectations but under different equivalent martingale measures representing different market views. The structure of the resulting optimal stopping problem depends on the interaction between the respective market price of risk and the option payoff. In particular, a crucial role is played by the delayed purchase premium that is related to the stochastic bracket between the market price and the buyer's risk premia. Explicit characterization of the purchase timing is given for two representative classes of Markovian models: (i) defaultable equity models with local intensity; (ii) diffusion stochastic volatility models. Several numerical examples are presented to illustrate the results. Our model is also applicable to the optimal rolling of long-dated options and sequential buying and selling of options.

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