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The term "exotic option" was popularized by Mark Rubinstein's 1990 working paper (published 1992, with Eric Reiner) "Exotic Options", with the term based either on exotic wagers in horse racing, or due to the use of international terms such as "Asian option", suggesting the "exotic Orient".
A compound option is an option on another option, and as such presents the holder with two separate exercise dates and decisions. If the first exercise date arrives and the 'inner' option's market price is below the agreed strike the first option will be exercised (European style), giving the holder a further option at final maturity.
The terms and are put in by-hand and represent factors that ensure the correct behaviour of the price of an exotic option near a barrier: as the knock-out barrier level of an option is gradually moved toward the spot level , the BSTV price of a knock-out option must be a monotonically decreasing function, converging to zero exactly at =. Since ...
The Timer Call is an Exotic option, that allows buyers to specify the level of volatility used to price the instrument.. As with many leading ideas, the principle of the timer call is remarkably simple: instead of a dealer needing to use an implied volatility to use in pricing the option, the volatility is fixed, and the maturity is left floating.
A cliquet option or ratchet option is an exotic option consisting of a series of consecutive forward start options. [1] The first is active immediately. The second becomes active when the first expires, etc. Each option is struck at-the-money when it becomes active. [2]
A binary option is a financial exotic option in which the payoff is either some fixed monetary amount or nothing at all. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The two main types of binary options are the cash-or-nothing binary option and the asset-or-nothing binary option.
More generally though, simulation is employed for path dependent exotic derivatives, such as Asian options. In other cases, the source of uncertainty may be at a remove. For example, for bond options [ 3 ] the underlying is a bond , but the source of uncertainty is the annualized interest rate (i.e. the short rate ).
An Asian option (or average value option) is a special type of option contract. For Asian options, the payoff is determined by the average underlying price over some pre-set period of time. For Asian options, the payoff is determined by the average underlying price over some pre-set period of time.