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Black-76 (1976): European options on a future/forward price F.
Two settlement styles:
- Discounted (standard Black-76): the premium is paid up front and
the payoff is discounted,
call = e^{-rT}[F N(d1) - K N(d2)]. - Margined (futures-style / “future-style”): the option premium is
itself margined daily like the future, so there is no discounting,
call = F N(d1) - K N(d2). Common for options on futures on many non-US derivatives exchanges (e.g. Eurex, ICE, ASX).
F is the futures price directly — Black-76 has no spot, dividend or
carry, since a future already embeds the cost of carry. All Greeks are
sensitivities with respect to F (delta/gamma), sigma, r and time.
Enums§
- Futures
Settlement - How an option on a future is settled.
Functions§
- delta
- Delta with respect to the futures price
F. - gamma
- Gamma with respect to the futures price
F(same for calls and puts). - price
- Black-76 price of a European option on a future.
- rho
- Rho (sensitivity to the risk-free rate). Zero for margined options,
which have no discounting;
-T * pricefor discounted options (the futures price is exogenous, sorenters only through the discount). - theta
- Theta (calendar time decay,
dV/dt = -dV/dT). - vega
- Vega (per unit of vol; same for calls and puts).