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Time to expiration

Ran Hilai

For vanilla stock options pricing using Black Sholes, it is possible to specify time to expiration as fraction of day?  (for example – 1.5 days)

 

Thanks

Ran


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Re: Time to expiration

Luigi Ballabio
On Wed, 2011-05-25 at 15:18 -0400, Ran Hilai wrote:
> For vanilla stock options pricing using Black Sholes, it is possible
> to specify time to expiration as fraction of day?  (for example – 1.5
> days)

No, it's not; we'd need to add a time part to the Date class.

Luigi



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