Forecasting financial derivative prices

In this paper we consider the problem of forecasting the prices of financial market derivatives. A model of changing the underlying asset prices in the form of general Ito stochastic process is developed. The derivative prices can be obtained from the solution of the reverse Cauchy problem for appropriate parabolic equations on the basis of the reverse Kolmogorov equation. We present here the numerical scheme for solving the reverse Cauchy problem for call option and put option prices based on the implicit finite element difference method. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.