Investors should always early exercise an American call options with dividends. Do you agree? Why?
Stock prices tend to lower when the company announces it's dividends and this affects the option prices. Dividends announced will decrease the call premium. Hence we'll agree that it's better to exercise a call option with dividends. The effect should be considered both by the issuers and holders. But early exercise makes sense only when stock dividends are being announced else it is meaningless. The call exercise may happen quite likely on a day before stock's ex-dividend date.
Investors should always early exercise an American call options with dividends. Do you agree? Why?
Explain why a European call on a stock that pays no dividends is never exercised early. What would you do instead to eliminate the call option position?
what two conditions makes the early exercise valuable? (american options)
Is it ever optimal to exercise early an American call option on the futures price of gold. Explain in detail..
the value of American calls (as most traded options are in American type) will decline if the underlying stocks pay dividends, and therefore theoretically, the investors should sell an American call before dividends payment since the investors can buy it back with a lower price after dividends payment. However, in practice, it may not be a wise idea to sell your American call before the dividend payments and purchase back after the dividend payments. In other words, if you want...
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QUESTION 1 (5 points) You own a European call option and an American Call option, each on one share of Smart `R' Us, and each with an exercise price of $80. The current share price is $120 and it is an instant before Smart `R' Us pays dividends by an amount of $10. An instant after the ex-dividend date, the share price would fall to $110, and the two options would have one period until expiration. By expiration date the...
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Briefly explain why it is not optimal to exercise an American call option on a non-dividend paying stock before the expiration date.
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*25. Explain why an American call option on a non-dividend-paying stock always has the same price as its European counterpart.