Asian Option Errors

Assumption

Deviations in Asian options within cryptocurrency markets often stem from the incorrect modeling of the underlying asset price distribution. Traders frequently rely on Black-Scholes frameworks that assume geometric Brownian motion, which fails to account for the extreme leptokurtosis and volatility clustering inherent in digital asset classes. These inaccuracies lead to significant mispricing when calculating the arithmetic or geometric averages of underlying tokens over the observation period.