BM function

Brownian motion, Brownian bridge, and geometric Brownian motion simulators

Brownian motion, Brownian bridge, and geometric Brownian motion simulators.

BBridge(x=0, y=0, t0=0, T=1, N=100)
BM(x=0, t0=0, T=1, N=100)
GBM(x=1, r=0, sigma=1, T=1, N=100)

Arguments

• x: initial value of the process at time t0.
• y: terminal value of the process at time T.
• t0: initial time.
• r: the interest rate of the GBM.
• sigma: the volatility of the GBM.
• T: final time.
• N: number of intervals in which to split [t0,T].

Details

These functions return an invisible ts object containing a trajectory of the process calculated on a grid of N+1

equidistant points between t0 and T; i.e., t[i] = t0 + (T-t0)*i/N, i in 0:N. t0=0 for the geometric Brownian motion.

The function BBridge returns a trajectory of the Brownian bridge starting at x at time t0 and ending at y at time T; i.e.,

The function BM returns a trajectory of the translated Brownian motion $(B(t), t >= t0 | B(t0)=x)$; i.e., $x+B(t-t0)$ for t >= t0. The standard Brownian motion is obtained choosing x=0 and t0=0 (the default values).

The function GBM returns a trajectory of the geometric Brownian motion starting at x at time t0=0; i.e., the process

Returns

• X: an invisible ts object

Author(s)

Stefano Maria Iacus

Examples

plot(BM())
plot(BBridge())
plot(GBM())