Delta hedging

Delta Hedging in Practice: Implied vs Actual Volatility

This chapter is one of the most practically important in the entire book. Wilmott starts with a bold statement: there is money to be made from options because they may be mispriced by the market. He knows the efficient market crowd hates this idea. But volatility arbitrage hedge funds clearly believe it, so let us look at the math.

The Black-Scholes Model: The Formula That Changed Finance

Wilmott calls Chapter 5 “without doubt, the most important chapter in the book.” He is not exaggerating. Everything before this was setup. Everything after this builds on what happens here. The Black-Scholes equation was first written down in 1969, the derivation was published in 1973, and finance has never been the same since.

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