A research on the pricing of the basket options and the investigation of sensitivity parameters

Transactions in futures markets have gained a new dimension by the preference of option contracts. The main reasons for this are that both options and forward transaction contracts, by choosing leverage effect or different strategies, provides investors mechanisms that can minimize risk. Opportunity markets have also developed thanks to the investor demands that have caused the transaction volume of derivative products to increase on the market and they have begun to serve in line with investors' desires. It has become inevitable for the various types of options to emerge on the markets where standard options and stock market products have become insufficient and new derivative requests are formed. Basket Options, a form of Exotic Options, are nonstandard options with special conditions added to provide less risky service to individual investors, which often trade at counterfeit markets. In this study, the sensitivity parameters of the installed model are measured by referring to the option operations and examining the basket options. In the application section, the pricing of the basket option created hypothetically from BIST30 and BIST100 indexes according to Black&Scholes model and for different assumptions in a six month period was calculated. The value reached after maturity was tested with this application method defined before and with this data a result was gained. The pricing of the option was made with Black&Scholes Model.