This chapter will mainly discuss about Black Scholes model, which is applied in this research. The history of Black Scholes will be introduced followed by Geometric Brownian motion equation history. Besides these two, we will also explain briefly about financial application of gold share price. 2.2 Gold Share Price Shahriar Shafiee (2010) is concerned about global gold market and gold price forecasting. He stated that in practice, the price and production behavior of gold differs from most
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