16 Financial functions

The financial functions are defined in the header pnl/pnl_finance.h.

Practitioners do not speak in terms of option prices, but rather compare prices in terms of their implied Black & Scholes volatilities. So this parameter is very useful in practice. Here, we propose two functions to compute σimpl : the first one is for one up-let, maturity, strike, option price. the second function is for a list of strikes and maturities, a matrix of prices (with strikes varying row-wise).