Re: Option price not NPV()d ?

Posted by Ferdinando M. Ametrano-3 on
URL: http://quantlib.414.s1.nabble.com/Option-price-not-NPV-d-tp4751p4754.html

Hi Ken

I might be missing something here... why shouldn't the payoff of a
commodity option be discounted?

ciao -- Nando

On 4/27/06, Ken Anderson <[hidden email]> wrote:

> The VanillaOption class has a method, NPV(), which calculates the net
> present value for the option (the value of the option multiplied by
> the discounting factor).
>
> I'm using these classes to compute exchange traded commodity options,
> and therefore, should not have the price NPV()d.  Is there a way to
> get the value without NPV ?
>
> Ken
>
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