/* -*- mode: c++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */ /* Copyright (C) 2006 Klaus Spanderen This file is part of QuantLib, a free-software/open-source library for financial quantitative analysts and developers - http://quantlib.org/ QuantLib is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the QuantLib license. You should have received a copy of the license along with this program; if not, please email . The license is also available online at . This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the license for more details. */ /*! \file mcamericanengine.cpp \brief Monte Carlo engine for vanilla american options */ #include #include #include #include #include using boost::bind; namespace QuantLib { AmericanPathPricer::AmericanPathPricer( const boost::shared_ptr& payoff, Size polynomOrder, LsmBasisSystem::PolynomType polynomType) : scalingValue_(1.0), payoff_ (payoff), v_ (LsmBasisSystem::pathBasisSystem(polynomOrder, polynomType)) { QL_REQUIRE( polynomType == LsmBasisSystem::Monomial || polynomType == LsmBasisSystem::Laguerre || polynomType == LsmBasisSystem::Hermite || polynomType == LsmBasisSystem::Hyperbolic || polynomType == LsmBasisSystem::Chebyshev2th, "insufficient polynom type"); // the payoff gives an additional value v_.push_back(boost::bind(&AmericanPathPricer::payoff, this, _1)); const boost::shared_ptr strikePayoff = boost::dynamic_pointer_cast(payoff_); if (strikePayoff) { scalingValue_/=strikePayoff->strike(); } } Real AmericanPathPricer::payoff(Real state) const { return (*payoff_)(state/scalingValue_); } Real AmericanPathPricer::operator()(const Path& path, Size t) const { return payoff(state(path, t)); } Real AmericanPathPricer::state(const Path& path, Size t) const { // scale values of the underlying // to increase numerical stability return path[t]*scalingValue_; } std::vector > AmericanPathPricer::basisSystem() const { return v_; } }