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lookback

lookback noun: a kind of exotic option whose payoff depends on the optimal (maximum or minimum) underlying asset's price occurring over the life of the option. Also the alternative form of look-back.

Noun

lookback (plural lookbacks)

  1. (attributive, often) A kind of exotic option whose payoff depends on the optimal (maximum or minimum) underlying asset's price occurring over the life of the option.
    • Another interesting path-dependent option is the lookback option. A lookback call allows you to buy the asset at the lowest price and a lookback put allows you to sell it at the highest price attained during the life of the option.2009, Don M. Chance, Robert Edwin Brooks, An Introduction to Derivatives and Risk Management
    • The principle of a lookback option is to give the investor the maximum payoff based on perfect hindsight.2011, Frans de Weert, Exotic Options Trading

Also used as

lookback is also the alternative form of look-back.

Forms of lookback

plurallookbacks

Phrases with lookback

Questions about lookback

What does lookback mean?
Lookback means a kind of exotic option whose payoff depends on the optimal (maximum or minimum) underlying asset's price occurring over the life of the option.
What part of speech is lookback?
Lookback is a noun.
What is the plural of lookback?
The plural of lookback is lookbacks.

Words near lookback in the dictionary

  1. lookarounds
  2. lookaside
  3. lookasides
  4. lookatcha
  5. lookatchu
  6. lookback
  7. lookback time
  8. lookbacks
  9. lookbehind
  10. lookbehinds
  11. lookbook

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