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Re: Delta and Gamma of FD american Option

Posted by Luigi Ballabio on Mar 08, 2010; 2:10pm
URL: http://quantlib.414.s1.nabble.com/Delta-and-Gamma-of-FD-american-Option-tp6478p6484.html

On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 17:06 -0600, ravi agrawal wrote:
> To be precise am getting these values of delta and gamma only when
> volatility is 0%.

Looks like a division by zero or something like it. Can you try running
the thing through a debugger?

Later,
        Luigi



> On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 3:23 PM, ravi agrawal
> <[hidden email]> wrote:
>         Hi,
>         Where are the greeks for American Option using finite
>         differences calculated?
>         At many places am getting americanOption.delta() and
>         americanOption.gamma() as  -1.#IND        1.#QNB respectively.
>         Any help would be appreciated.
>        
>         Thanks
>         Ravi
>
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