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B1+B2: antithetic-variates Monte Carlo with best-of-both estimator selection,
CVaR-based risk loading (coherent measure) B1 — VARIANCE REDUCTION (antithetic variates with adaptive estimator) src/pricing/price-model.js - Refactored: drawDaily(days, rng) generates a stream of per-day tuples { z, u, jz } (diffusion innovation, jump-Bernoulli uniform, jump-mag innov). - integratePath({ R0, draws, params, flipDiffusionSign? }) runs the SDE on a precomputed draw sequence. Pure function — no RNG side effects — so it composes with variance-reduction wrappers. - simulateAntitheticPair({ R0, days, params, rng }) returns { a, b } two paths that share every uniform/jump-magnitude draw but have sign-flipped diffusion innovations. The standard antithetic construction for jump-diffusion (flip Z's only — flipping jump draws would just be a different sample, not a paired one). - simulatePath() unchanged signature; now uses drawDaily + integratePath internally so the same code path is exercised. src/pricing/pricer.js - Runs in antithetic pairs (ceil(paths/2) pairs × 2 = effectivePaths). - BOTH estimators computed every quote: plainSE — std error across all 2N paths antitheticSE — std error across N pair-means - Antithetic helps diffusion-dominated payoffs (ATM caps with low jump intensity) — variance reduction factor in the 2-3× range. It can HURT jump-dominated payoffs (deep OTM where the variance is dominated by shared jumps across the pair, inflating pair-mean variance). - Headline CI / risk load uses min(plainSE, antitheticSE). The varianceReductionFactor = (plainSE / bestSE)² is therefore ≥ 1 always. - usedEstimator: 'antithetic' | 'plain' tells the UI which one won. B2 — CVaR-BASED RISK LOADING (coherent risk measure) src/pricing/pricer.js - Tracks every per-path payout (sorted at the end) so CVaR_β can be computed exactly from the empirical distribution. - riskLoadMode: 'cvar' (default) | 'stdev' cvar: risk_load = max(0, cvarAlpha · (CVaR_β − E[payout])) — α defaults to 0.15; β defaults to 0.95 (5% tail). CVaR is the mean of payouts in the worst (1−β) tail; it satisfies the four coherent-risk axioms (subadditivity, monotonicity, positive homogeneity, translation invariance). Stdev does NOT satisfy subadditivity, which is why the actuarial and Solvency II literature has moved to ES/CVaR. stdev: risk_load = riskLoadStdevMultiplier · bestSE (legacy mode, still selectable per quote for backward compat). - The output now includes cvarHbar, cvarBeta, riskLoadMode. test/variance-reduction.test.js (9 new tests): - Antithetic pairs share jump locations + have opposite diffusion increments - With jumps off, pair has perfectly negative diffusion correlation (deterministic sum of log-prices across two different seeds) - varianceReductionFactor ≥ 1 always (best-of-both estimator) - Substantial reduction on ATM payoffs (>1.5× with λ=0) - CVaR ≥ expected payout (definition) - CVaR risk load positive on OTM caps with tail mass - stdev vs cvar mode produce different decompositions - Deep-OTM boundary: cvar → 0 when no path enters the money - effectivePaths = round-up-to-even on odd input 82/82 tests pass (was 73). All pure / no testnet required. Sources for the upgrade: - Dean Francis Press 2025: "Variance Reduction in Monte Carlo Option Pricing: A Comparative Analysis of Control Variates, Multiple Control Variates and Antithetic Variates" — confirms antithetic dominance on diffusion-driven payoffs, multi-control superiority elsewhere. - Hardy (CAS) "An Introduction to Risk Measures for Actuarial Applications": CVaR's four coherence axioms, why ES has displaced VaR/stdev in actuarial practice. - Wang (1995) "Insurance Pricing and Increased Limits Ratemaking" — the next layer (Wang-transform pricing) is future work documented in LIMITATIONS. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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const DAYS_PER_YEAR = 365;
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/**
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* Simulate one daily price path of length `days + 1` starting from R0
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* (path[0] = R0, path[days] = R at the end of `days` calendar days).
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* Per-day random draws — one tuple per simulated day. Separating the draws
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* from the integration loop lets us share randomness across paired antithetic
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* paths: the same uniform / Bernoulli + Gaussian-for-jumps draws fire on each
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* pair, but the diffusion Gaussian gets sign-flipped on the partner path.
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* That produces perfectly negatively-correlated diffusion components, which
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* is exactly what antithetic variates need for variance reduction.
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* Returns the path as a regular Float64Array (cheap; serializable).
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* @typedef {object} DailyDraws
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* @property {number} z diffusion innovation, N(0, 1)
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* @property {number} u uniform(0, 1) used for the jump Bernoulli
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* @property {number} jz jump-magnitude innovation, N(0, 1)
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*/
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/**
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* Generate `days` daily-draw tuples from the RNG. Stable contract: tests +
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* antithetic pairing both rely on this shape.
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*
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* @param {number} days
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* @param {ReturnType<typeof createRng>} rng
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* @returns {DailyDraws[]}
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*/
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export function drawDaily(days, rng) {
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if (!Number.isInteger(days) || days < 0) throw new Error('days must be a non-negative integer');
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/** @type {DailyDraws[]} */
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const out = new Array(days);
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for (let t = 0; t < days; t++) {
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out[t] = { z: rng.nextNormal(), u: rng.next(), jz: rng.nextNormal() };
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}
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return out;
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}
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/**
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* Integrate the jump-diffusion SDE day-by-day using a precomputed draw
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* sequence. Pure function — no RNG side effects — so it composes cleanly
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* with variance-reduction wrappers.
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*
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* Pass `flipDiffusionSign = true` to integrate the antithetic partner of an
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* earlier call: the diffusion Z's are negated while the jump Bernoulli and
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* jump-magnitude draws are reused as-is (the standard construction for
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* antithetic variates on jump-diffusion paths — flipping the jump draws too
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* would just be a different sample, not a paired one).
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* @param {object} args
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* @param {number} args.R0
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* @param {number} args.days
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* @param {DailyDraws[]} args.draws
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* @param {PriceModelParams} [args.params]
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* @param {ReturnType<typeof createRng>} [args.rng]
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* @param {boolean} [args.flipDiffusionSign=false]
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* @returns {Float64Array}
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export function simulatePath({ R0, days, params = DEFAULT_PARAMS, rng = createRng() }) {
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export function integratePath({ R0, draws, params = DEFAULT_PARAMS, flipDiffusionSign = false }) {
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if (R0 <= 0 || !Number.isFinite(R0)) throw new Error('R0 must be a positive finite number');
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if (!Number.isInteger(days) || days < 0) throw new Error('days must be a non-negative integer');
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const days = draws.length;
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const dt = 1 / DAYS_PER_YEAR;
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const sqrtDt = Math.sqrt(dt);
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const path = new Float64Array(days + 1);
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let logR = Math.log(R0);
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path[0] = R0;
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const sign = flipDiffusionSign ? -1 : 1;
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for (let t = 1; t <= days; t++) {
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// Mean reversion + diffusion
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logR += params.kappa * (params.thetaLog - logR) * dt + params.sigma * sqrtDt * rng.nextNormal();
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// Jump? Use a thinning approximation: at each daily step, with probability
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// λ·Δt, sample a jump of N(jumpMeanLog, jumpStdLog²). For λ ≤ ~50/yr this
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// is accurate; for larger we'd switch to a compound-Poisson loop.
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if (rng.next() < params.lambda * dt) {
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logR += params.jumpMeanLog + params.jumpStdLog * rng.nextNormal();
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const d = draws[t - 1];
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logR += params.kappa * (params.thetaLog - logR) * dt + params.sigma * sqrtDt * (sign * d.z);
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// Thinning approximation: with probability λΔt, a jump fires this day.
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// For λ ≤ ~50/yr the discretization error is negligible; above that we'd
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// switch to a compound-Poisson loop within the day.
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if (d.u < params.lambda * dt) {
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logR += params.jumpMeanLog + params.jumpStdLog * d.jz;
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path[t] = Math.exp(logR);
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/**
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* Simulate one daily price path. Convenience wrapper around drawDaily +
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* integratePath for callers that don't need to share randomness.
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* Returns the path as a regular Float64Array (cheap; serializable).
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* @param {object} args
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* @param {number} args.R0
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* @param {number} args.days
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* @param {PriceModelParams} [args.params]
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* @param {ReturnType<typeof createRng>} [args.rng]
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* @returns {Float64Array}
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*/
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export function simulatePath({ R0, days, params = DEFAULT_PARAMS, rng = createRng() }) {
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const draws = drawDaily(days, rng);
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return integratePath({ R0, draws, params });
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}
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/**
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* Generate an antithetic pair: two paths sharing every uniform / Bernoulli /
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* jump-magnitude draw, but with opposite signs on the diffusion increments.
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* Variance of the mean estimator on (Y₁ + Y₂)/2 is
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* Var(Y) · (1 + ρ) / 2
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* where ρ = Corr(Y₁, Y₂). For a diffusion-dominated payoff, ρ → −1 and we
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* plain MC — a free win when N is the cost-binding constraint.
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* @param {ReturnType<typeof createRng>} args.rng
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* @returns {{ a: Float64Array, b: Float64Array }}
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export function simulateAntitheticPair({ R0, days, params = DEFAULT_PARAMS, rng }) {
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const draws = drawDaily(days, rng);
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const a = integratePath({ R0, draws, params, flipDiffusionSign: false });
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const b = integratePath({ R0, draws, params, flipDiffusionSign: true });
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}
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* day (and every subsequent day in the path) is scaled by `magnitude`; mean

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