Why is the Black Scholes formula not viable when pricing a spread option for electricity?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer:
An assumption of the Black Scholes formula is a normal distribution of payoffs. The marginal profit of a spread option is not log normally distributed and has a floor of 0.
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