Calculate the Garman-Kohlhagen Model, a variant of the Black-Scholes model used to price European-style options on foreign exchange (FX) rates.

Because holding foreign currency earns the foreign risk-free rate (analogous to a continuous dividend yield on a stock), the Garman-Kohlhagen model uses the foreign risk-free rate in place of the dividend yield used in the standard Black-Scholes model.

The formulas are as follows:

\[d_{1} = (\ln(S / K) + (r - r_{f} + (\sigma ^{2}) / 2) \cdot t) / (\sigma \cdot \sqrt{t})\] \[d_{2} = d_{1} - \sigma \cdot \sqrt{t}\] \[\text{Call Option Price} = S \cdot e ^{- r_{f} \cdot t} \cdot N(d_{1}) - K \cdot e ^{- r \cdot t} \cdot N(d_{2})\] \[\text{Put Option Price} = K \cdot e ^{- r \cdot t} \cdot N(- d_{2}) - S \cdot e ^{- r_{f} \cdot t} \cdot N(- d_{1})\]

Where S is the spot exchange rate, K is the strike price, r is the domestic risk-free rate, r_f is the foreign risk-free rate, σ is the volatility, t is the time to expiration, N(d1) is the cumulative normal distribution of d1 and N(d2) is the cumulative normal distribution of d2.

Also known as: the Black-Scholes model for currency options, FX option pricing model.

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Calculate the Garman-Kohlhagen Model in Python

The Garman-Kohlhagen Model is available in the Options module of the open-source Finance Toolkit. Install it with:

pip install financetoolkit -U

Then call get_garman_kohlhagen as shown below.

from financetoolkit import Toolkit

toolkit = Toolkit(["AMZN", "AAPL"], api_key="FINANCIAL_MODELING_PREP_KEY")

garman_kohlhagen = toolkit.options.get_garman_kohlhagen(foreign_risk_free_rate=0.02)

garman_kohlhagen.loc['AMZN']

Parameters

get_garman_kohlhagen accepts the following parameters:

  • start_date (str | None, optional): The start date which determines the stock price. Defaults to None which means it will use the most recent date.
  • put_option (bool, optional): Whether to calculate the put option price. Defaults to False which means it will calculate the call option price.
  • strike_price_range (float): The percentage range to use for the strike prices. Defaults to 0.25 which equals 25% and thus results in strike prices from 75 to 125 if the current stock price is 100.
  • strike_step_size (int): The step size to use for the strike prices. Defaults to 5 which means that the strike prices will be 75, 80, 85, 90, 95, 100, 105, 110, 115 and 120 if the current stock price is 100.
  • expiration_time_range (int): The number of days to use for the time to expiration. Defaults to 30 which equals 30 days.
  • risk_free_rate (float, optional): The domestic risk free rate to use for the calculation. Defaults to None which means it will use the current risk free rate.
  • foreign_risk_free_rate (float, optional): The foreign risk free rate to use for the calculation, which plays the role of the dividend yield in the standard Black-Scholes model. Defaults to 0.0.
  • show_input_info (bool, optional): Whether to show the input information. Defaults to False.
  • rounding (int | None, optional): The number of decimals to round the results to. Defaults to 4.
  • standardize (bool, optional): Whether to standardize (Z-Score) the result across the time to expiration columns for each ticker and strike price. Defaults to False.
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