RAINBOW OPTIONS
Maturity (years)
Correlation
Spot Price
Strike Price
Risk Free Rate (%)
Carry Yield (%)
Volatility (%)
Volatility (%)
Option Type


Rainbow Price/Asset A Asset B
Price
Delta
Gamma
Theta
Vega

Options involving two or more risk assets are sometimes referred to as Rainbow Options.
There are three types of Rainbow Options: "better-of", "worse-of", and "out-performance".

Assuming no arbitrage possibilities, the following parameters are needed to price a rainbow option:

  1. Tenor of the Option: T
  2. Spot price of the underlyings
  3. Dividend rates for the underlyings
  4. Volatility of the underlyings
  5. Correlation between returns of asset A and B
The pricing of a rainbow option is independent of an interest rate.

In this calculator example, we price 3 types of rainbow options which involve two underlyings (two color rainbow option).
Interest rates (in the model) are assumed to be semiannually compounded.



Pricing Models Page Available is a Swing Java Jar File if you just wish to run the models.