Commodity Option Pricing

Commodity Option Pricing: A Practitioner’s Guide covers commodity option pricing for quantitative analysts, traders or structurers in banks, hedge funds and commodity trading companies.

Based on the author’s industry experience with commodity derivatives, this book provides a thorough and mathematical introduction to the various market conventions and models used in commodity option pricing. It introduces the various derivative products typically traded for commodities and describes how these models can be calibrated and used for pricing and risk management. The book has been developed with input from traders and examples using real world data, together with relevant up to date academic research.

The book includes practical descriptions of market conventions and quote codes used in commodity markets alongside typical products seen in broker quotes and used in calibration. Also discussed are commodity models and their mathematical derivation and volatility surface modelling for traded commodity derivatives. Gold, silver and other precious metals are addressed, including gold forward and gold lease rates, as well as copper, aluminium and other base metals, crude oil and natural gas, refined energy and electricity. There are also sections on the products encountered in commodities such as crack spread and spark spread options and alternative commodities such as carbon emissions, weather derivatives, bandwidth and telecommunications trading, plastics and freight.

Commodity Option Pricing is ideal for anyone working in commodities or aiming to make the transition into the area, as well as academics needing to familiarize themselves with the industry conventions of the commodity markets.

Dr Iain J. Clark is former Head of Foreign Exchange and Commodities Quantitative Analysis at Standard Bank's London office, and has also worked for JP Morgan, BNP Paribas, Lehman Brothers, Dresdner Kleinwort and UniCredit. He holds a PhD in applied mathematics and an MSc in financial mathematics. He is the author of Foreign Exchange Option Pricing: A Practitioner's Guide and is currently an independent researcher and consultant.

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DR IAIN J. CLARK is former Head of Foreign Exchange and Commodities Quantitative Analysis at Standard Bank's London office, and has also worked for JP Morgan, BNP Paribas, Lehman Brothers, Dresdner Kleinwort and UniCredit. He holds a PhD in applied mathematics and an MSc in financial mathematics. He is the author of Foreign Exchange Option Pricing: A Practitioner's Guide and is currently an independent researcher and consultant.

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Commodity Option Pricing: A Practitioner's Guide covers commodity option pricing for quantitative analysts, traders or structurers in banks, hedge funds and commodity trading companies.

Based on the author's industry experience with commodity derivatives, this book provides a thorough and mathematical introduction to the various market conventions and models used in commodity option pricing. It introduces the various derivative products typically traded for commodities and describes how these models can be calibrated and used for pricing and risk management. This book has been developed with input from traders and features examples using real-world data, together with relevant up-to-date academic research. This book includes practical descriptions of market conventions and quote codes used in commodity markets alongside typical products seen in broker quotes and used in calibration. Also discussed are commodity models and their mathematical derivation and volatility surface modelling for traded commodity derivatives. Gold, silver and other precious metals are addressed, including gold forward and gold lease rates, as well as copper, aluminium and other base metals, crude oil and natural gas, refined energy and electricity. There are also sections on the products encountered in commodities such as crack spread and spark spread options and alternative commodities such as carbon emissions, weather derivatives, bandwidth and telecommunications trading, plastics and freight. Commodity Option Pricing is ideal for anyone working in commodities or aiming to make the transition into the area, as well as academics needing to familiarize themselves with the industry conventions of the commodity markets.

Inhalt
Acknowledgements xv

Notation xvii

List of Figures xix

List of Tables xxiii

1 Introduction 1

1.1 Trade, Commerce and Commodities 3

1.2 Adapting to Commodities as an Asset Class 8

1.2.1 Classification of Commodities into Sub-categories 9

1.3 Challenges in Commodity Models 12

1.3.1 Futures 12

1.3.2 Correlation 12

1.3.3 Seasonality 15

1.3.4 American and Asian Features 15

2 Commodity Mathematics and Products 17

2.1 Spot, Forwards and Futures 17

2.1.1 Spot 18

2.1.2 Forwards 19

2.1.3 Futures 20

2.2 The BlackScholes and Black-76 Models 24

2.2.1 The BlackScholes Model 24

2.2.2 The BlackScholes Model Without Convenience Yield 25

2.2.3 The BlackScholes Model With Convenience Yield 26

2.2.4 The Black-76 Model 28

2.2.5 Risk-Neutral Valuation 35

2.2.6 Forwards 36

2.2.7 The BlackScholes Term Structure Model 38

2.3 Forward and Futures Contracts 39

2.3.1 Forwards 39

2.3.2 Futures 39

2.3.3 Case Study 40

2.4 Commodity Swaps 42

2.5 European Options 44

2.5.1 European Options on Spot 45

2.5.2 European Options on Futures 49

2.5.3 Settlement Adjustments 49

2.6 American Options 50

2.6.1 Barone-Adesi and Whaley (1987) 50

2.6.2 Lattice Methods 53

2.7 Asian Options 54

2.7.1 Geometric Asian Options Continuous Averaging 54

2.7.2 Arithmetic Asian Options Continuous Averaging 61

2.7.3 Geometric Average Options Discrete Fixings Kemna and Vorst (1990) 62

2.7.4 Arithmetic Average Options Discrete Fixings Turnbull and Wakeman (1991) 66

2.8 Commodity Swaptions 70

2.9 Spread Options 73

2.9.1 Margrabe Exchange Options 74

2.9.2 The Kirk Approximation 75

2.9.3 Calendar Spread Options 77

2.9.4 Asian Spread Options 78

2.10 More Advanced Models 78

2.10.1 Mean Reverting Models 79

2.10.2 Multi-Factor Models 88

2.10.3 Convenience Yield Models 94

3 Precious Metals 99

3.1 Gold Forward and Gold Lease Rates 101

3.2 Volatility Surfaces for Precious Metals 103

3.2.1 Pips Spot Delta 104

3.2.2 Pips Forward Delta 104

3.2.3 Notation 105

3.2.4 Market Volatility Surfaces 105

3.2.5 At-the-Money 105

3.2.6 Strangles and Risk Reversals 107

3.2.7 Temporal Interpolation 111

3.3 Survey of the Precious Metals 111

3.3.1 Gold 112

3.3.2 Silver 117

3.3.3 Platinum 119

3.3.4 Palladium 121

3.3.5 Rhodium 124

4 Base Metals 127

4.1 Futures, Options and TAPO Contracts 130

4.1.1 Futures 130

4.1.2 Options 134

4.1.3 Traded Average Price Options 137

4.2 Commonly Traded Base Metals 139

4.2.1 Copper 140

4.2.2 Aluminium 142

4.2.3 Zinc 143

4.2.4 Nickel 145

4.2.5 Lead 146

4.2.6 Tin 148

5 Energy I Crude Oil, Natural Gas and Coal 151

5.1 Crude Oil 154

5.1.1 WTI 158

5.1.2 Brent 163

5.1.3 Calibration of WTI Volatility Term Structure 171

5.1.4 Calibration of WTI Volatility Skew 174

5.1.5 Brent and Other Crude Markets 177

5.1.6 A Note on Correlation 180

5.2 Natural Gas 180

5.2.1 Deseasonalising Forward Curves 186

5.3 Coal 188

6 Energy II Refined Products 195

6.1 The Refinery Basket 195

6.2 Gasoline 197

6.3 Heating Oil/Gas Oil 200

6.4 Petroleum Gases and Residual Fuel Oil 203

6.5 Seasonality and Volatility 205 6.6 Crack Spread Op...