Research Article

A Simple Numerical Method for Pricing an American Put Option

Table 1

Valuation of the American put options.

Safty parameter RMSE

5.00 0.0005816 80.8760 11.4926 6.0911 2.9869
5.10 0.0005443 80.8761 11.4925 6.0911 2.9868
5.20 0.0005110 80.8762 11.4925 6.0910 2.9868
5.30 0.0004831 80.8764 11.4924 6.0909 2.9867
5.40 0.0004623 80.8765 11.4924 6.0908 2.9866
5.50 0.0004503 80.8767 11.4923 6.0907 2.9865
5.60 0.0004484 80.8769 11.8760 6.0906 2.9864
5.70 0.0004576 80.8771 11.8771 6.0906 2.9863
5.80 0.0004780 80.8773 11.4922 6.0905 2.9863
5.90 0.0005088 80.8776 11.4921 6.0904 2.9862
6.00 0.0005491 80.8779 11.4920 6.0903 2.9861

Maximum difference 0.0001336 0.0019 0.0006 0.0008 0.0008