Taking a portfolio perspective on option pricing and hedging, we show that within the standard Black-Scholes-Merton framework large portfolios of options can be hedged without risk in discrete time. The nature of the hedge portfolio in the limit of large portfolio size is substantially different...

We apply the Malliavin calculus to the stochastic string framework and obtain a Clark-Ocone-like formula. This result allows us to rewrite the hedging portfolio explicitly in terms of the Malliavin derivative of the discounted payoff. We illustrate this new result with two applications. Firstly,...

In this paper, we provide an approximation formula for at the money forward options based on a Polya approximation of the cumulative density function of the standard normal distribution, and prove that the relative error of this approximation is uniformly bounded for options with arbitrarily...

Hedging down-and-out puts (and up-and-out calls), where the maximum payoff is reached just before a barrier is hit that would render the claim worthless afterwards, is challenging. All hedging methods potentially lead to large errors when the underlying is already close to the barrier and the...