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by a9h74j 1606 days ago
Related story: I was almost kicked out of a fintech interview in the late 1980's, when I mentioned that there was room to question Black-Sholes. I was thinking of an article I had read about "variance noise" in a scientific publication.

VIX is now a how many billion dollar industry? (Not that that defeats Black-Sholes.)

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Black-Scholes still is a dumb pricing model, I feel like an options pricing model should factor in the liquidity of the underlying asset and Black-Scholes and other pricing methods I have seen do not. Even though implied volatility is hand waiving away every variable not known, even that is not factoring in underlying liquidity.
Can you elaborate more? That sounds quite interesting!
Did you predict LTCM would blow up?