Bounds for Floating-Strike Asian Options using Symmetry
Vicky Henderson,
David Hobson, William Shaw and Rafal Wojakowski
Abstract
This paper studies symmetries between fixed and floating-strike Asian
options and exploits this symmetry to derive an upper bound for the price
of a floating-strike Asian. This bound only involves fixed-strike Asians
and vanillas, and can be computed simply given one of the many efficient
methods for pricing fixed-strike Asian options. The bound is exact until
after the averaging has begun and again at maturity. The bound is compared
to benchmark prices obtained via Monte Carlo simulation in numerical
examples.
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