European call option with strike price of K and maturity T and buys a put with the same strike price and maturity. Describe the investor’s position. The payoff to the investor is - max (ST - K ‚ 0) + max(K - ST‚ 0) This is K- ST in all circumstances. The investor’s position is the same as a short position in a forward contract with delivery price K. 8 .4.)Explain why brokers require margins when clients write options but not when they buy options? When an investor buys an option‚ cash must
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Suppose call and put prices are given by Strike Call premium Put premium 80 22 4 100 9 21 (IJ Find the convexity violations. (1.-) What spread would you use to effect arbitrage? 105 5 24.80 o t: y- (Q I A New York finn is offering a new financial instrument called a "happy calL" It has a payoff function at time T equal to max(.5S‚ S - K)‚ where S is the price of a stock and K is a fixed strike price. You always get something with a happy call. Let P be
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$50. The stock pays a dividend of $5 in 3 months. A 6-month European put option on the stock has a strike price of $48 and a premium of $4.38. The continuously compounded interest rate is 8%. Calculate the premium for a 6-month European call option on the stock with a strike price of $48. * A 1.02 * B 3.36 * C 3.46 * D 4.38 * E 5.40 2 1. An "exchange call option" gives the owner of the option the right to give up one share of Stock A in exchange for receiving one share
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Question 1: Consider an option on dividend-paying stock when stock price $30‚ the exercise price is $29‚ the risk-free interest rate is 5% p.a.‚ the volatility is 25%p.a. and time to maturity is 4 months. Assume that the stock is due to go ex-dividend in 1.5 months. The expected dividend is 50cents. a. b. c. what is the price of the option if it is a European call? What is the price of the option if it is a European put? Use the results in the Appendix to this chapter to determine whether there
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Wall Street 2. Journal. The premium on one IBM February 90 call contract is A. $4.1250 B. $418.00 C. $412.50 D. $158.00 E. None of these is correct 3. A put on Sanders stock with a strike price of $35 is priced at $2 per share‚ while a call with a strike price of $35 is priced at $3.50. The maximum per-share loss to the writer of an uncovered put is __________‚ and the maximum per-share gain to the writer of an uncovered call is _________. A. $33; $3.50 B. $33; $31.50 C. $35; $3.50 D. $35;
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standing at 800. Explain how a put option on the S&P 100 with a strike price of 700 can be used to provide portfolio insurance. 2. “Once we know how to value options on a stock paying a dividend yield‚ we know how to value options on stock indices and currencies.” Explain this statement. 3. Explain how corporations can use range-forward contracts to hedge their foreign exchange risk. 4. Calculate the value of a three-month at-the-money European call option on a stock index when the index
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inherent in the option investment strategies‚ please perform the following analyses for call and put options on Lotus’s common stock that mature in February 1994 and that have an exercise price of $55 per share. a. Compute net profits and losses per share (actual dollar profit and losses‚ not rates of return) at expiration (February 19‚ 1994) for the following investment strategies: Buying a call option on Lotus’s stock; Writing a call option on Lotus’s common stock; Buying a put option on Lotus’s
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Characteristics of Options r Definitions and Positions: - A Call Option gives its owner for a specified time the right to purchase an underlying good at a specified price (= exercise price or strike price) - A Put Option gives its owner for a specified time the right to sell an underlying good at a specified price (= exercise/strike price) - An American Option permits the owner to exercise (=buy/sell the underlying) at any time before or at expiration. A European Option can be exercised
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Do you Know? • What is Derivative Market? • What is Hedging? • What is OTC? • What is Exotic Option? Parisian Option Passport option Rainbow option Russian Option Shout Option Spread Option Parisian Option The pay off a standard European option only depends on the price of the underlying asset at the maturity date Passport option A Passport option grants its holder the right to engage in short/long trading strategy of his own choice A passport is a new contingent
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Walking Through Some Examples of Futures and Options Contracts – Speculation and Hedging As Dr. Cogley said in class the other day‚ sometimes futures contracts and options are hard to wrap your head around until you see them a few times. So I’ve written up some examples similar to those Dr. Cogley did in lecture‚ with a little more explanation about how we get the results that we do. But before we jump into that‚ we need to revisit our terms. 1. Forward contract: A buyer and a seller agree to a specific
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