Black-Scholes Option Pricing is Wrong

Theory, assumptions, problems, and solutions for practitioners

Roman Paolucci
Towards Data Science
4 min readJun 29, 2020

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The equation offered by Black and Scholes (1973) is the standard theoretical pricing model for European options. The keyword being theoretical as the Black-Scholes model makes some key assumptions that are immediately violated in practice.

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