A call option on a stock with a strike price of $60 costs $8. A put option on the same stock with the same strike price costs $6. They both expire in 1 year. (a) How can these two options be used to create a straddle? (b) What is the initial investment? (c) Construct a table showing how the payoff and profit varies with ST in 1 year, for the straddle that you constructed. Whenever you need to refer to stock price on expiration date, use ST . The only notation that should show up in the table should be ST . The table should look like this: Stock Price Payoff Profit ST ≤ 60 ST > 60
A call option on a stock with a strike price of $60 costs $8. A put...
You own a call option on Intuit stock with a strike price of $41. When you purchased the option, it cost you $5. The option will expire in exactly three months' time. a. If the stock is trading at $46 in three months, what will be the payoff of the call? What will be the profit of the call? b. If the stock is trading at $36 in three months, what will be the payoff of the call? What will...
Assume that you have shorted a call option on Intuit stock with a strike price of $35; when you originally sold (wrote) the option, you received $5. The option will expire in exactly three months time. a. If the stock is trading at $41 in three months, what will your payoff be? What will your profit be? b. If the stock is trading at $23 in three months, what will your payoff be? What will your profit be? c. Draw...
Assume that you have shorted a call option on Intuit stock with a strike price of $35; when you originally sold (wrote) the option, you received $5. The option will expire in exactly three months' time. a. If the stock is trading at $41 in three months, what will your payoff be? What will your profit be? b. If the stock is trading at $23 in three months, what will your payoff be? What will your profit be? c. Draw...
Assume that you have shorted a call option on Intuit stock with a strike price of $40; when you originally sold (wrote) the option, you received $5. The option will expire in exactly three months' time. a. If the stock is trading at $55 in three months, what will your payoff be? What will your profit be? b. If the stock is trading at $35 in three months, what will your payoff be? What will your profit be? c. Draw...
You own a call option on Intuit stock with a strike price of $37. When you purchased the option, it cost $5. The option will expire in exactly three months' time. a. If the stock is trading at $50 in three months, what will be the payoff of the call? What will be the profit of the call? b. If the stock is trading at $22 in three months, what will be the payoff of the call? What will be...
You own a put option on Ford stock with a strike price of $14. The option will expire in exactly six months' time. When you bought the put, its cost to you was $2. The option will expire in exacly six months' time. a. If the stock is trading at $10 in six months, what will be the payoff of the put? What will be the profit of the put? b. If the stock is trading at $25 in six...
You own a put option on Ford stock with a strike price of $11. The option will expire in exactly six months' time. When you bought the put, its oost to you was $2. The option will expire in exactly six months' time. a. If the stock is trading at $7 in six months, what will be the payoff of the put? What will be the profit of the put? b. If the stock is trading at $20 in six...
Call options on a stock are available with strike prices of $15, $17.5 , and $20 and expiration dates in 3 months. Their prices are $4, $2, and $0.5 , respectively. (a) How can those options be used to create a butterfly spread? 2 (b) What is the initial investment? (c) Construct a table showing how payoff and profit varies with ST in 3 month, for the butterfly spread you created. The table should looks like this: Stock Price Payoff...
g) European call with a strike price of $40 costs $7. European put with the same strike price and expiration date costs $6. Assume that you buy two calls and one put (strap strategy). Sketch the graph and write down functions of payoff and profit h) Consider a stock with a price of $50 and there is European put option on that stock with the strike of $55 and premium of $4. Assume that you buy 1/3 of a stock...
The current price of the Gilead stock is $77 per share. Consider an option strategy, which consists of following positions: Selling one put option on the Gilead stock with the strike price of $75. The price of this put option is $3.44. Buying one put option on the Gilead stock with the strike price of $72. The price of this option is $2.24. Buying one call option on the Gilead stock with the strike price of $81. The price of...