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===Asian option=== * An '''[[Asian option]]''' (or '''average option''') is an option where the payoff is not determined by the underlying price at maturity but by the average underlying price over some pre-set period of time. For example, an Asian call option might pay MAX(DAILY_AVERAGE_OVER_LAST_THREE_MONTHS(S) β K, 0).<ref name=Rogers1995>{{citation |doi = 10.2307/3215221 |last1 = Rogers |first1 = L.C.G. |last2 = Shi |first2 = Z. |year = 1995 |title = The Value of an Asian Option |journal = Journal of Applied Probability |volume = 32 |issue = 4 |pages = 1077β1088 |url = http://www.institut.math.jussieu.fr/~boka/enseignement/isifar/refs/Ref_Asiatiques_Rogers_Shi_95.pdf |archive-url = https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20090320135330/http://www.institut.math.jussieu.fr/~boka/enseignement/isifar/refs/Ref_Asiatiques_Rogers_Shi_95.pdf |url-status = dead |archive-date = 2009-03-20 |jstor = 3215221 |s2cid = 120793076 |access-date = 2008-11-15 }}</ref> * There are two types of Asian options: '''Average Price Option''' (fixed strike) and '''Average Strike Option''' (floating strike). * Asian options were originated in [[commodity markets]] to prevent option traders from attempting to manipulate the price of the underlying security on the exercise date. * They were named 'Asian' because their creators were in [[Tokyo]] when they created the first pricing model<ref>{{cite book|author=Paul Wilmott|title=Paul Wilmott on Quantitative Finance|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zdLDAQAAQBAJ|date=25 October 2013|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-1-118-83683-5|chapter=Chapter 25 section 25.1}}</ref>
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