Book - The Complete guide to Option Pricing Formulas - BSM


Black-Scholes-Merton formulas - The underlying assest S follows a geometric Brownian Motion


is the expected instantaneous rate of return on the underlying asset, is the instantaneous volatility of the rate of return, and dz is Wiener process.

Black-Scholes Option Pricing Formulas - c and p denote European Call and Put options


where


S = Stock price
X = Strike price of option
r = Risk-free interest rate
T = Time of expiration in years
= volatility of the relative price change of the underlying stock price N(x) = The cumulative normal distribution funciton

Black-Scholes PDE
Black-Scholes option value can be found by solving the Black-Scholes partial differentation equation (PDE). The PDE is



The Black-Scholes formula is a closed-form solution to this PDE given the payoff function of a plain vanilla option