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Regime-based Implied Stochastic Volatility Model for Crypto Option Pricing

Saef, Danial; Wang, Yuanrong; Aste, Tomaso; (2023) Regime-based Implied Stochastic Volatility Model for Crypto Option Pricing. In: Companion Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2023. (pp. pp. 1103-1110). ACM Green open access

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Abstract

The increasing adoption of Digital Assets (DAs), such as Bitcoin (BTC), raises the need for accurate option pricing models. Yet, existing methodologies fail to cope with the volatile nature of the emerging DAs. Many models have been proposed to address the unorthodox market dynamics and frequent disruptions in the microstructure caused by the non-stationarity, and peculiar statistics, in DA markets. However, they are either prone to the curse of dimensionality, as additional complexity is required to employ traditional theories, or they overfit historical patterns that may never repeat. Instead, we leverage recent advances in market regime (MR) clustering with the Implied Stochastic Volatility Model (ISVM) on a very recent dataset covering BTC options on the popular trading platform Deribit. Time-regime clustering is a temporal clustering method, that clusters the historic evolution of a market into different volatility periods accounting for non-stationarity. ISVM can incorporate investor expectations in each of the sentiment-driven periods by using implied volatility (IV) data. In this paper, we apply this integrated time-regime clustering and ISVM method (termed MR-ISVM) to high-frequency data on BTC options. We demonstrate that MR-ISVM contributes to overcome the burden of complex adaption to jumps in higher order characteristics of option pricing models. This allows us to price the market based on the expectations of its participants in an adaptive fashion and put the procedure to action on a new dataset covering previously unexplored DA dynamics.

Type: Proceedings paper
Title: Regime-based Implied Stochastic Volatility Model for Crypto Option Pricing
Event: WWW '23: The ACM Web Conference 2023
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1145/3543873.3587621
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1145/3543873.3587621
Language: English
Additional information: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution International 4.0 License.
Keywords: High Frequency Trading, Crypto-currency, Market Regimes, Implied Volatility, Option Pricing, Clustering
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Computer Science
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10169326
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