<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!DOCTYPE article  PUBLIC "-//NLM//DTD Journal Publishing DTD v3.0 20080202//EN" "http://dtd.nlm.nih.gov/publishing/3.0/journalpublishing3.dtd"><article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="3.0" xml:lang="en" article-type="research article"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">OALibJ</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Open Access Library Journal</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="epub">2333-9705</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Scientific Research Publishing</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.4236/oalib.1102863</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">OALibJ-69904</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Articles</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="Discipline-v2"><subject>Biomedical&amp;Life Sciences</subject><subject> Business&amp;Economics</subject><subject> Chemistry&amp;Materials Science</subject><subject> Computer Science&amp;Communications</subject><subject> Earth&amp;Environmental Sciences</subject><subject> Engineering</subject><subject> Medicine&amp;Healthcare</subject><subject> Physics&amp;Mathematics</subject><subject> Social Sciences&amp;Humanities</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>
 
 
  Geometric Fractional Brownian Motion Perturbed by Fractional Ornstein-Uhlenbeck Process and Application on KLCI Option Pricing
 
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Mohammed</surname><given-names>Alhagyan</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"><sup>1</sup></xref><xref ref-type="corresp" rid="cor1"><sup>*</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Masnita</surname><given-names>Misiran</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2"><sup>2</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Zurni</surname><given-names>Omar</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2"><sup>2</sup></xref></contrib></contrib-group><aff id="aff2"><addr-line>Department of Mathematics and Statistics, School of Quantitative Sciences, Universiti Utara Malaysia, Sintok, Kedah, Malaysia</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff1"><addr-line>Department of Mathematics, Community College in Al-Aflaj, Sattam University, Al Kharj, KSA</addr-line></aff><author-notes><corresp id="cor1">* E-mail:<email>mhagyann@gmail.com(MA)</email>;</corresp></author-notes><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>30</day><month>08</month><year>2016</year></pub-date><volume>03</volume><issue>08</issue><fpage>1</fpage><lpage>12</lpage><history><date date-type="received"><day>30</day>	<month>June</month>	<year>2016</year></date><date date-type="rev-recd"><day>accepted</day>	<month>16</month>	<year>August</year>	</date><date date-type="accepted"><day>19</day>	<month>August</month>	<year>2016</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement>&#169; Copyright  2014 by authors and Scientific Research Publishing Inc. </copyright-statement><copyright-year>2014</copyright-year><license><license-p>This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>
 
 
   
   This paper presents an enhanced model of geometric fractional Brownian motion where its volatility is assumed to be stochastic volatility model that obeys fractional Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process. The method of estimation for all parameters (<em>α</em>, <em>β</em>, <em>m</em>, <em>μ</em>, <em>H</em>1, and <em>H</em>2) in this model is derived. We calculated the value of European call option using the estimates based on the methods of Masnita [1] [2] and Kukush [3], traditional Black-Scholes European option price, in addition to proposed model in order to make comparison study. 
  
 
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>Geometric Fractional Brownian Motion</kwd><kwd> Fractional Ornstein-Uhlenbeck Process</kwd><kwd> Long Memory Stochastic Volatility</kwd><kwd> Innovation Algorithm</kwd><kwd> Constraint Transcription Method</kwd><kwd> Segmentation</kwd><kwd>  Option Pricing</kwd><kwd> KLCI</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><body><sec id="s1"><title>1. Introduction</title><p>One of the most important models in financial world is a geometric Brownian motion (GBM) introduced by Samuelson in 1964 [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.69904-ref4">4</xref>] . This model is widely used as the underlying process of a risky market. Extension of this model includes the added long memory properties named geometric fractional Brownian motion (GFBM). GFBM model includes important parameters that are used in fractional Black-Scholes model which is a natural improvement of standard Black-Scholes model widely used in options market.</p><p>Based on the literature, early works on GBM assumed volatility to be a constant. However this assumption is rejected by most empirical studies [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.69904-ref5">5</xref>] - [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.69904-ref8">8</xref>] which led to some market crashes such as Black-Monday in 1987, the Asian crisis in 1989 and housing bubble and credit crisis 2007-2009. Thus, GBM is later studied with the assumption that volatility is stochastic [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.69904-ref9">9</xref>] - [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.69904-ref14">14</xref>] . Moreover, researchers showed that time series data depending on this model exhibited the existence of memory (some trend-like behavior) which implied deducing the incorporation of the long memory parameter (H), thus leading to the introduction of geometric fractional Brownian motion (GFBM).</p><p>GFBM model includes important parameters that are normally used in fractional Black-Scholes model which is a natural improvement of standard Black-Scholes model, widely accessible in options market. However, there are few contributions in the literature that estimate these parameters. The expressions of parameters in this model are too involved; in particular in covariance and its inversion of the likelihood function, thus hinder works of estimation.</p><p>However, some ground works have been recently established. Kukushin [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.69904-ref1">1</xref>] developed an incomplete maximum likelihood estimation approach for this model, where the Hurst index H (the long memory parameter) is estimated by some other heuristic methods, such as the variation analysis or R/S analysis. To extend further this work, complete maximum likelihood estimation (CMLE) method was introduced by Misiran et al. [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.69904-ref1">1</xref>] and [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.69904-ref2">2</xref>] that are able to simultaneously estimate all parameters involved in GFBM (μ, σ and H). However, in Misiran and Kukush’s works, the volatility is assumed constant for the simplicity of calculation. Such assumption was rejected by empirical studies as previously explained. Thus, in this article, we aim to extend the previous work by considering the stochastic volatility in the said model.</p><p>Stochastic volatility (SV) can be referred to the volatility and common dependence between variables that are permitted to fluctuate over time, instead of remain constant. The main idea in stochastic volatility is that asset returns are well approximated by mixture distribution. This mixture reflects the level of new arrivals activity of data in the financial market. These models are able to overcome weaknesses in Black-Choles model.</p><p>One of the most important continuous settings of stochastic volatility is the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck (OU) model, developed by Uhlenbeck and Ornstein in [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.69904-ref15">15</xref>] . It is the analogue of the famous autoregressive moving average (ARMA) process in discrete time. The main property of this model is the mean-reverting property, i.e. the mean acts as an equilibrium level for the process. OU model is habitually applied to model exchange rates, stochastic volatility, and interest rate [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.69904-ref16">16</xref>] - [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.69904-ref20">20</xref>] . In this work, we replace constant volatility in GFBM model by stochastic volatility that obeys the fractional Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process to provide better accuracy in describing real market behavior.</p><p>This article follows the sequence. First, a brief background on the GFBM and stochastic volatility are introduced. Then, the model is derived and followed by the estimation method. The application study is conducted to compare the proposed method with other methods.</p></sec><sec id="s2"><title>2. Model Derivation</title><p>We briefly introduce the derivation of the model as follows. For detail derivation, we refer readers to Appendix A. Let <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x7.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> represent the stock price process with the dynamic assumed by:</p><disp-formula id="scirp.69904-formula590"><label>(1)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x8.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>where <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x9.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is the mean of return, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x10.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>is the stochastic process and <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x11.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is fractional Brownian motion with Hurst index<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x12.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, and <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x13.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is deterministic function. For simplicity of computations, in this work we choose <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x14.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> as in [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.69904-ref21">21</xref>] .</p><p>Let the dynamics of the volatility <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x15.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> be described by fractional Ornstein-Uhlenbeck (FOU) process which is the solution of the following stochastic differential equation:</p><disp-formula id="scirp.69904-formula591"><label>(2)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x16.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>where α, β and m are constant parameters that represent mean reverting of volatility, volatility of volatility, and mean of volatility, respectively. <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x17.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>is another fractional Brownian motion. We assume that <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x18.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x19.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> are independent, and<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x20.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>.</p><p>We present the covariance functions involved in this derivation, as follows:</p><disp-formula id="scirp.69904-formula592"><label>(3)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x21.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><disp-formula id="scirp.69904-formula593"><label>(4)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x22.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><disp-formula id="scirp.69904-formula594"><label>(5)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x23.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><disp-formula id="scirp.69904-formula595"><label>(6)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x24.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula></sec><sec id="s3"><title>3. Method of Estimation</title><p>To estimate the said parameters <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x25.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> involved in (1) and (2), the likelihood function will be utilized. In general, likelihood functions for n random variables is given by:</p><disp-formula id="scirp.69904-formula596"><label>(7)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x26.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>By maximizing (7), we are able to get the efficient estimator of all the parameters. However, it is complicated to analytically maximizing such log likelihood function that is too involved, in particular the expression for the covariance function and its inversion. Alternatively, the innovation algorithm will be applied.</p><p>We use the definition of best linear prediction for stationary process from [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.69904-ref22">22</xref>] as follows:</p><p>Definition: Given data <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x27.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> the best linear predictor of <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x27.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x28.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> for <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x27.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x28.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x29.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x27.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x28.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x29.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x30.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and it can find by solving</p><disp-formula id="scirp.69904-formula597"><label>(8)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x31.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>where <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x32.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> for<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x32.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x33.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>.</p><p>(8) is called prediction equations, and are able to solve coefficients<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x34.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>.</p><p>Suppose that <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x35.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is a stationary process and</p><disp-formula id="scirp.69904-formula598"><label>(9)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x36.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>By the definition of best linear predictors the coefficient <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x37.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> satisfy</p><disp-formula id="scirp.69904-formula599"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x38.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><disp-formula id="scirp.69904-formula600"><label>(10)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x39.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>(A.10) can be written in matrix form as follows:</p><disp-formula id="scirp.69904-formula601"><label>(11)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x40.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>where <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x41.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x41.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x42.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> matrix, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x41.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x42.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x43.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>is an <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x41.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x42.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x43.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x44.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> vector, and <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x41.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x42.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x43.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x44.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x45.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is an <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x41.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x42.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x43.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x44.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x45.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x46.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> vector.</p><p>By (11), we get</p><disp-formula id="scirp.69904-formula602"><label>(12)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x47.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Let<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x48.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, then</p><disp-formula id="scirp.69904-formula603"><label>(13)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x49.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Thus,</p><disp-formula id="scirp.69904-formula604"><label>(14)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x50.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Let</p><disp-formula id="scirp.69904-formula605"><label>(15)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x51.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>where<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x52.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x52.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x53.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>is an autoregressive parameter, and <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x52.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x53.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x54.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is standard deviation.</p><p>(15) can be written in matrix form as follows:</p><disp-formula id="scirp.69904-formula606"><label>(16)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x55.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>or</p><disp-formula id="scirp.69904-formula607"><label>(17)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x56.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>where <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x57.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x57.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x58.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. Note that<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x57.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x58.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x59.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, where <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x57.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x58.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x59.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x60.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is the mean square error, given by</p><disp-formula id="scirp.69904-formula608"><label>(18)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x61.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>From (17), we have</p><disp-formula id="scirp.69904-formula609"><label>(19)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x62.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>So the autocovariance function is</p><disp-formula id="scirp.69904-formula610"><label>(20)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x63.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>and</p><disp-formula id="scirp.69904-formula611"><label>(21)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x64.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>The determinant is</p><disp-formula id="scirp.69904-formula612"><label>(22)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x65.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>The likelihood function is now transformed into the following optimization problem.</p><p>Problem P</p><p>Maximizes the cost function</p><p><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x66.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>where</p><disp-formula id="scirp.69904-formula613"><label>(23)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x67.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>subject to</p><disp-formula id="scirp.69904-formula614"><label>(24)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x68.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><disp-formula id="scirp.69904-formula615"><label>(25)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x69.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>From some calculations we obtained</p><disp-formula id="scirp.69904-formula616"><label>(26)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x70.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>and</p><disp-formula id="scirp.69904-formula617"><label>(27)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x71.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>The constraints in this optimization problem are too involved with covariance functions, so the optimization is difficult to solve. In order to simplify this problem, we use the constraint transcription method described in [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.69904-ref23">23</xref>]</p><p>Maximizes the cost function:</p><disp-formula id="scirp.69904-formula618"><label>(28)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x72.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>subject to</p><disp-formula id="scirp.69904-formula619"><label>(29)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x73.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>where <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x74.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> are the constraints in the original problem. Let this problem be referred to as Problem P. For each <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x74.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x75.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> we approximate <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x74.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x75.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x76.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> with<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x74.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x75.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x76.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x77.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, where</p><disp-formula id="scirp.69904-formula620"><label>(30)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x78.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>where <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x79.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> some small number. We now append the approximate functions into the cost function <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x79.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x80.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> to an appended cost function given below.</p><p>Problem P<sub>ε</sub><sub>,γ</sub></p><disp-formula id="scirp.69904-formula621"><label>(31)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x81.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>where <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x82.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is a penalty parameter. This is an unconstraint optimization problem, which is referred to as Problem<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x82.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x83.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. For any given<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x82.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x83.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x84.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, there exists a <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x82.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x83.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x84.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x85.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> such that for<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x82.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x83.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x84.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x85.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x86.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, the solution of Problem <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x82.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x83.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x84.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x85.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x86.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x87.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> will satisfy the constraint of Problem P. Let <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x82.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x83.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x84.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x85.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x86.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x87.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x88.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> be such a <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x82.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x83.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x84.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x85.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x86.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x87.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x88.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x89.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> for each<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x82.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x83.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x84.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x85.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x86.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x87.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x88.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x89.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x90.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. Furthermore, the solution of Problem <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x82.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x83.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x84.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x85.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x86.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x87.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x88.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x89.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x90.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x91.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> converges to the solution of Problem P.</p></sec><sec id="s4"><title>4. Application to European Option Pricing</title><p>To determine the value of option, there are some factors to be taken into account, such as intrinsic value, time of expiration, volatility, interest rate and cash dividends paid. There are a number of option pricing models that use these parameters to control the fair market value of the option. The Black-Scholes model is the most widely used.</p><sec id="s4_1"><title>4.1. Classical Black-Scholes Model for European Option Pricing</title><p>Black-Scholes option pricing model constructed by Fischer Black and Myron Scholes in 1973. This model created for describing the market value of call option. Its formulated as:</p><disp-formula id="scirp.69904-formula622"><label>(32)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x92.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Here, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x93.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>is the price of a call option, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x93.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x94.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>is the current stock price, K is the exercise price, r is the risk-free interest rate, and T is the time to maturity. <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x93.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x94.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x95.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>and <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x93.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x94.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x95.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x96.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> are the cumulative distribution function of the standard normal distribution.</p><disp-formula id="scirp.69904-formula623"><label>(33)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x97.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>and</p><disp-formula id="scirp.69904-formula624"><label>(34)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x98.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>where <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x99.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is the standard deviation of the stock price. In this model, the price is assumed to follow a geometric Brownian motion.</p></sec><sec id="s4_2"><title>4.2. Fractional Black-Scholes Model for European Option Pricing</title><p>FBS model is the accepted improvement of BS model. The price at time <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x100.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> of a European call option with the strike price K and maturity T is given by</p><disp-formula id="scirp.69904-formula625"><label>(35)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x101.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>where</p><disp-formula id="scirp.69904-formula626"><label>(36)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x102.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>and</p><disp-formula id="scirp.69904-formula627"><label>(37)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x103.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>where S is the underlying stock price at time t, r is the risk free interest rate, and <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x104.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is the cumulative function of a standard normal distribution [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.69904-ref24">24</xref>] .</p></sec><sec id="s4_3"><title>4.3. Data</title><p>Kuala Lumpur Composite Index (KLCI) is announced in 1986 in order to be a guideline of the actual performance indicator for the economy in general and especially for the overall Malaysia stock market. It includes of more than one-handed multi-sector companies from the Main Board in Bursa Malaysia which previously named as Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange (KLSE).</p><p>We used a data set from KLCI which available online on http://www.econstats.com. The daily close price data set of KLCI from 3rd of January, 2005 to 29th of December, 2006 is studied; with total of observations of 494. The return series is then calculated in logarithm. The return is considered to avoid the high volatility in the data. The fluctuations in the price appear to be more practical as these fluctuations are stationary. In order to compute all parameters contained in fractional geometric Brownian motion and fractional Orenstein-Uhlenbeck, we obtained log return of adjust closed, daily volatility of log return and daily volatility of adjust closed. <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig1">Figure 1</xref> and <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig2">Figure 2</xref> show the price and return series.</p><p>The values of all parameters of the return series can be found in <xref ref-type="table" rid="table1">Table 1</xref>.</p><fig id="fig1"  position="float"><label><xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig1">Figure 1</xref></label><caption><title> Daily returns series of KLCI from 3rd of January 2005 to 29th of December 2006</title></caption><graphic mimetype="image"   position="float"  xlink:type="simple"  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x105.png"/></fig><fig id="fig2"  position="float"><label><xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig2">Figure 2</xref></label><caption><title> Daily close price series of KLCI from 3rd of January 2005 to 29th of December 2006</title></caption><graphic mimetype="image"   position="float"  xlink:type="simple"  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x106.png"/></fig><table-wrap id="table1" ><label><xref ref-type="table" rid="table1">Table 1</xref></label><caption><title> Summary of parameters</title></caption><table><tbody><thead><tr><th align="center" valign="middle" >Parameter</th><th align="center" valign="middle" >Value</th></tr></thead><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" ><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x107.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>: Hurst index of adjust closed price</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >0.57497</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" ><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x108.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>: Hurst index of daily volatility of adjust closed price</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >0.50981</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" ><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x109.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>: Mean of log returns</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >0.000391</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" ><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x110.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>: Volatility of volatility</td><td align="center" valign="middle" ><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x111.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula></td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >m: Mean of daily volatility of log return</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >0.00002578</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" ><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x112.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>: Mean reverting of daily volatility of log return</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >2.219378</td></tr></tbody></table></table-wrap></sec><sec id="s4_4"><title>4.4. Estimation Based on Proposed Method</title><p>In this subsection we present the results of our study of modeling the data of KLCI, between the 3rd of January 2005 and 29th of December 2006 using GFBM by the assumption of stochastic volatility based on daily return series.</p><p>We used the parameters in <xref ref-type="table" rid="table1">Table 1</xref> in order to compute the value of stochastic volatility. We depend on the equation <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x113.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> to compute stochastic volatility for 100 times and then we compute</p><p>the average. We adopt this average value to be the volatility. With respect to long memory parameters are estimated by already command in |Mathematica 10 software. Finally, we obtained the following results <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x114.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x114.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x115.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>.</p></sec><sec id="s4_5"><title>4.5. Calculating the Value of European Call Option</title><p>With the purpose of calculate the value of European call option, we use several maturity times (days) for a traded option. According to with the actual Malaysia conventional interest rate on 29th of December, 2006, the risk-free interest rate is fixed at 3.5% per annum. We consider MYR1096.24, following the price on 29 December, 2006 as the underlying price. The volatility and Hurst exponent are estimated based on our method for the historical daily return data of KLCI, with estimates listed subsection 4.3 to compare our work with others, we calculated the value of European call option using the estimates based on the methods of Masnita [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.69904-ref1">1</xref>] , [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.69904-ref2">2</xref>] and Kukush [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.69904-ref3">3</xref>] , in addition to the traditional Black-Scholes European option price. The results are listed in <xref ref-type="table" rid="table2">Table 2</xref>.</p><p>From <xref ref-type="table" rid="table2">Table 2</xref>, it is clear that the longer time to expiry means the higher value of call price. The reader can observe that the call price of the proposed method of this work is closed to Masnita work and there is fairly different with Kukush et al. and traditional Black-Sholes. Call prices obtained by Kukush et al. with the R/S analysis, presents the lowest values. While the highest value calculated by traditional Black-Sholes model where the long memory is not taken into account. The prices which valued by proposed method and Masnita method are between those valued by the method of Kukush et al. and traditional Black-Scholes. However the method of Masnita is based on theoretical reasoning, but the volatility is assumed to be constant which was rejected by empirical studies as previously explained in chapter one [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.69904-ref5">5</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.69904-ref6">6</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.69904-ref8">8</xref>] , whereas our model assumed that the volatility is stochastic and this is agree with empirical studies [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.69904-ref9">9</xref>] - [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.69904-ref14">14</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.69904-ref25">25</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.69904-ref26">26</xref>] .</p><table-wrap id="table2" ><label><xref ref-type="table" rid="table2">Table 2</xref></label><caption><title> Comparison of European call option prices using different methods with H in (.) and <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x116.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> in [.]</title></caption><table><tbody><thead><tr><th align="center" valign="middle" >T − t</th><th align="center" valign="middle" >K</th><th align="center" valign="middle" >FBC-Hagyan (0.5734) [<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x117.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>]</th><th align="center" valign="middle" >FBC-Masnita (0.575) [<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x118.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>]</th><th align="center" valign="middle" >FBC-Kukush (0.6615) [<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x119.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>]</th><th align="center" valign="middle" >Classical BC (0.5) [<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x120.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>]</th></tr></thead><tr><td align="center" valign="middle"  rowspan="5"  >15</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >1070</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >28.1256</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >28.1162</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >27.854</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >28.744</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >1080</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >19.068</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >19.048</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >18.1328</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >20.233</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >1090</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >11.3859</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >11.3525</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >10.0388</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >13.0495</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >1100</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >5.7765</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >5.7395</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >4.2417</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >7.5811</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >1110</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >2.4117</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >2.3826</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >1.2854</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >3.9081</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle"  rowspan="5"  >30</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >1070</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >30.8044</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >30.78.24</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >30.0116</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >31.9587</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >1080</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >22.5347</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >22.5021</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >21.2564</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >24.1353</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >1090</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >15.4517</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >15.4105</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >13.758</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >17.3926</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >1100</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >9.8296</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >9.7583</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >7.9795</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >11.8935</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >1110</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >5.74902</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >5.7082</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >4.0753</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >7.6799</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle"  rowspan="5"  >45</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >1070</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >33.5933</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >33.5642</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >32.4808</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >35.0049</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >1080</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >25.7466</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >25.7087</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >24.2271</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >27.518</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >1090</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >18.9178</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >18.8732</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >17.0777</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >20.9548</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >1100</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >13.2623</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >13.2147</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >11.2814</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >15.4134</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >1110</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >8.83295</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >8.7870</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >6.9319</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >10.9238</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle"  rowspan="5"  >60</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >1070</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >36.3218</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >36.2886</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >335.0267</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >37.8585</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >1080</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >28.7365</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >28.6958</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >27.1004</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >30.5724</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >1090</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >20.0468</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >22.0004</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >20.1482</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >24.1036</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >1100</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >16.3567</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >16.3076</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >14.3287</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >18.5210</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >1110</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >11.7060</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >11.6575</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >9.7079</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >13.8486</td></tr></tbody></table></table-wrap></sec></sec><sec id="s5"><title>5. Summary</title><p>We presented a new model which is a GFBM providing that the volatility is assumed stochastic that obeys fractional Orenstein-Uhlenbeck process. To estimate the parameters involved in this model, we have to maximize the likelihood function. Regrettably, the analytic solution of likelihood function is very hard, since the covariance function is very expensive. According to this we used innovation algorithm to simplify the problem. This leads to converting the likelihood function to constrained problem with some constrains. These constrains are appended to cost function using constraints transcription method which obtain unconstrained optimization problem. Finally, we solved the unconstrained optimization problem.</p><p>In order to know the performance of the proposed model with respect to other methods we calculated the value of European call option using the estimates based on the methods of Masnita [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.69904-ref1">1</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.69904-ref2">2</xref>] , Kukush et al. [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.69904-ref3">3</xref>] , traditional Black-Scholes European option price in addition to the proposed method. The results show that the call price of the proposed method of this work is closed to Masnita work and it is fairly different with Kukush et al. and traditional Black-Sholes.</p></sec><sec id="s6"><title>Cite this paper</title><p>Mohammed Alhagyan,Masnita Misiran,Zurni Omar, (2016) Geometric Fractional Brownian Motion Perturbed by Fractional Ornstein-Uhlenbeck Process and Application on KLCI Option Pricing. Open Access Library Journal,03,1-12. doi: 10.4236/oalib.1102863</p></sec><sec id="s7"><title>Appendix A: Simplification of the Model</title><p>Let <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x121.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> represent the stock price process with the dynamic assumed by:</p><disp-formula id="scirp.69904-formula628"><label>(A.1)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x122.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Let the dynamics of the volatility <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x123.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> be described by fractional Ornstein-Uhlenbeck (FOU) process which is the solution of the following stochastic differential equation:</p><disp-formula id="scirp.69904-formula629"><label>(A.2)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x124.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>By using Euler’s discretization scheme for (A.2) we have:</p><disp-formula id="scirp.69904-formula630"><label>(A.3)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x125.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Let <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x126.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> then (A.3) covert to:</p><disp-formula id="scirp.69904-formula631"><label>(A.4)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x127.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Assume <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x128.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x128.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x129.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, then (A.4) can be written as:</p><disp-formula id="scirp.69904-formula632"><label>(A.5)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x130.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Following the iteration process and Cauchy criterion (A.5) can be restated as:</p><disp-formula id="scirp.69904-formula633"><label>(A.6)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x131.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Based on (A.6) the covariance of <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x132.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> can be expressed as:</p><disp-formula id="scirp.69904-formula634"><label>(A.7)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x133.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>By sufficiently large L, (A.7) can be writing as:</p><disp-formula id="scirp.69904-formula635"><label>(A.8)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x134.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>where,</p><disp-formula id="scirp.69904-formula636"><label>(A.9)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x135.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Now, return to equation (A.1), again by Euler’s discretization scheme, we get:</p><disp-formula id="scirp.69904-formula637"><label>(A.10)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x136.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Let<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x137.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, then we get</p><disp-formula id="scirp.69904-formula638"><label>(A.11)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x138.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Let <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x139.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> , then we have</p><disp-formula id="scirp.69904-formula639"><label>(A.12)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x140.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Assume that <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x141.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x141.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x142.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> then (A.12) become:</p><disp-formula id="scirp.69904-formula640"><label>(A.13)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x143.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>By (A.13) the covariance of <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x144.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> can be expressed as:</p><disp-formula id="scirp.69904-formula641"><label>(A.14)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x145.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Now we will compute every covariance function involved in (A.14)</p><disp-formula id="scirp.69904-formula642"><label>(A.15)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x146.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>where</p><disp-formula id="scirp.69904-formula643"><label>(A.16)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x147.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><disp-formula id="scirp.69904-formula644"><label>(A.17)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x148.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>But <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x149.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> since <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x149.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x150.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x149.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x150.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x151.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> since <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x149.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x150.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x151.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x152.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x149.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x150.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x151.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x152.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x153.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> are independent. So (A.17) become</p><disp-formula id="scirp.69904-formula645"><label>(A.18)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x154.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Similarly,</p><disp-formula id="scirp.69904-formula646"><label>(A.19)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x155.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>With respect of the last term</p><disp-formula id="scirp.69904-formula647"><label>(A.20)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x156.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Finally,</p><disp-formula id="scirp.69904-formula648"><label>(A.21)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x157.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>For sufficiently large L (A.21) con be written as</p><disp-formula id="scirp.69904-formula649"><label>(A.22)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/69904x158.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula></sec><sec id="s8"><title>NOTES</title></sec></body><back><ref-list><title>References</title><ref id="scirp.69904-ref1"><label>1</label><mixed-citation publication-type="other" xlink:type="simple">Kukush, A., Mishura, Y. and Valkeila, E. 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