Abstract

Traders and Sales often argue that if you already have a volatility surface and can hence price all vanilla options for exotics, e.g., barrier options, all you need to do is add a barrier to the contract description and extract entry on the pricing screen. We will illustrate in this column why, unfortunately, it is not so easy, even for simple European digitals.

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