Does anyone know of code that backs out model-free implied correlation and implied moments (skewness + kurtosis) from a series of option prices? Pseudo-code would be ok too if it was detailed enough.
What implied correlation might you be referring to? Is it a two-asset option or something? As to the moments, wouldn't it be easy to get those once you have the risk-neutral pdf that you have obtained from option prices? The pdf is relatively easy to compute...
Thanks for the response. I mean in the way that this paper (link below) defines them in appendix A. I am less interested in Implied Corr. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1309613
Take a look at Chapters 11 and 12 of: "Option Pricing Models and Volatility Using Excel-VBA" by ROUAH and VAINBERG ISBN: 978-0-471-79464-6 They provide VBA code for this purpose.
Thanks. That's funny. I actually have this book, lent it to someone and never got it back, so I had forgotten that this was in there. Now, if I can only find the CD....