Option Vega Sensitivity - Quant Researcher Interview Question
Difficulty: Medium
Category: derivatives
Asked at: Jane Street, IMC, Akuna, SIG, Citadel Securities, Optiver, JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs
Topics: options, greeks, black-scholes, risk-management
Problem Description
Vega measures the sensitivity of an option's price to changes in the volatility of the underlying asset, representing a critical metric for volatility arbitrage and risk management strategies. In the Black-Scholes framework, it is defined as the partial derivative of the option value with respect to the volatility parameter, quantifying the exposure to market uncertainty.
Task
Implement a function solution(S, K, T, r, sigma) that calculates the Vega ($\nu$) for a list of European options. The f
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