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DeskPricer

Price vanilla equity options and Greeks from your client — QuantLib underneath, same engine as the local HTTP service.

by JohnJohnJohnJohn ↗Physical Sciences & Scientific ComputingCommunity

LABSCO SUMMARY

Unusually explicit about its conventions — which is what you want from a pricer.

Most of the mistakes in option analytics come from unit and sign disagreements, and this README states each one: vega per vol point, theta per calendar day, the opposite theta sign to Bloomberg, t floored to one day so zero-DTE does not collapse. That, more than the engine choice, is what makes numbers from it comparable with numbers from somewhere else.

What it is

The MCP face of DeskPricer, a local options pricing service for vanilla European and American equity options. It prices single options and multi-leg portfolios, solves for implied volatility, and decomposes PnL into the Greeks that caused it. Everything runs on your machine; the same engine also answers over a local HTTP endpoint designed for Excel's WEBSERVICE and FILTERXML.

What you get

  • price_option returns price and Greeks for a single option
  • implied_volatility backs vol out of a market price with a Brent solver
  • pnl_attribution splits a move into delta, gamma, vega, theta, rho, vanna, volga and a residual
  • portfolio_greeks aggregates across legs of a book
  • Conventions are stated rather than assumed: vega per 1% vol point, theta and charm per calendar day, rho per 1% rate point, and theta's sign is the opposite of Bloomberg's DM<GO>
  • An optional borrow cost b, so the effective cost of carry is r − q − b

Requirements

The README's install line names deskpricer, which PyPI does not have; the project declares that name and version 3.5.0 in its own metadata. The entry point is the deskpricer-mcp command — full path if it is not on your PATH. No account and no key: the service binds to localhost and has no auth, no TLS and no rate limiting, which is deliberate for a desk tool and disqualifying for a shared one. Europeans and equivalent Americans are priced closed-form; other Americans use a binomial tree, and there is no finite-difference engine.

Setup effort

Build from source — git clone https://github.com/JohnJohnJohnJohn/portall_ws.git

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