American Option Pricing of Future Contracts in an Effort to Investigate Trading Strategies; Evidence from North Sea Oil Exchange

Subject Areas : Financial Economics

Ramin Ahmadi ¹ , Nahal Ariankia ²

1 - Department of Financial Engineering, Faculty of Technical Engineering, Khatam University, Tehran, Iran.
2 - Department of Financial Engineering, Faculty of Technical Engineering, Khatam University, Tehran, Iran.

Received: 2017-06-11 Accepted : 2017-09-20 Published : 2017-09-01

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