Testing Models with Real Option Prices
In a sense, the mirror image of an option trader evaluating market prices using the model is the academic theorist "testing" a model on market data. The standard procedure is to compute theoretical values for a set of actual options and compare them with market prices. Small random differences can be explained as "noise," but systematic deviations are viewed as evidence of problems with the model. The common finding that deep-out-of-the-money options seem to be priced higher in the market than Black-Scholes would suggest has given rise to any number of increasingly complex alternative models to explain the phenomenon.
Tinkering with a model to try to make it fit market prices better confuses valuation and pricing. What an arbitrage-based option model says is that buying the option at its fair value and following the arbitrage strategy until expiration will return the risk-free rate of interest. If empirical tests
show that this would happen in practice, assuming you could buy the option for its model value and had no transaction costs, then the valuation formula is correct. How those options might be priced in the market has nothing to do with whether the model values them correctly!
What model-testers have in mind, of course, is that the theoretical valuation model should also be the market's pricing equation. As we have seen, in the real world an arbitrage-based valuation model produces a band around the theoretical option value, within which the excess profit that could be made is smaller than the cost to set up the arbitrage trade. In this context, the model only says that the price should be within the bounds. It is perfectly consistent with the model for the market price to be always at the lower bound or the upper bound, or following any kind of pattern in between. The finding of a consistent "bias" in market prices does not indicate a rejection of the model, unless the bias is large enough that prices lie well outside the arbitrage bounds. And those bounds may be very wide.
Is the Skeptic Right?
A true skeptic might argue that this discussion has shown two things. First, option valuation models don't give correct fair values because the continuous arbitrage can’t be done in practice. Second, even if models did give correct values, option prices in the market would not equal those values because of all of the other factors affecting supply and demand.
I would not go so far, although I think some skepticism is a healthy, and risk-averse, attitude in this case. A model does not have to be exactly right for it to be of use. The general acceptance of option models in the real world, and the fact that extensive empirical examination of those models has not led to widespread rejection of them, suggests that, at least for short-maturity, exchange-traded option contracts, the models work acceptably well.
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