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Binomial Model : american style options
Issued on October 05 2010 par Strategies-options.com

Binomial model is able to take into account that an option might be american style.
Binomial model is a good way to price american style options



I - A peculiar constraint

American style options are by nature of a special kind. Option value can't be worth less than payoff, and option value can't be worth less the european style one.

Hence american style option value is the maximum value between european style option value and the payoff.





II - Expression

That leads : for each node ,one must have:




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