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This option has the highest net present value.
QUESTION 27 The following American call options all have an exercise price of $8.00. Assuming the...
QUESTION 19 Kenny Silver, CFA, is estimating the price of a call option. The call has an exercise price of $100 and a remaining time to expiration of 273 days. The spot price of the underlying stock is $93.25 and a put of the same underlying stock, exercise price and remaining time to expiration is currently priced at $6.50. Assuming a risk-free rate of 8% and a 365-day period, the call option’s arbitrage-free price is a. $5.34 b. $7.66 c....
Which of the following call options (X is the exercise price and T is time to maturity) has the highest value (all options are on the same underlying stock)? X=150; T=.5 X=150; T= 25 X=120; T=.25 X=120; T= 5 We can't tell without further information.
A call option with an exercise price of $65 will expire in 73 days. No cash payments will be made by the underlying asset over the life of the option. If the underlying asset price is at 70 and the risk-free rate is 5%, the lower bounds for an American Call and European Call should be American=5. European=5.63 American=5.63. European=5 American=5.63. European=5.63 American=5. European=5
Consider the binomial model for an American call and put on a stock whose price is $90. The exercise price for both the put and the call is $65. The standard deviation of the stock returns is 25 percent per annum, and the risk-free rate is 6 percent per annum. The options expire in 120 days. The stock will pay a dividend equal to 4 percent of its value in 60 days. (a) Draw the three-period stock tree and the...
Call option A has an exercise price of $20. Call option B has an exercise price of $15. If all other characteristics of these options are identical and they are on the same underlying asset, which option will have a higher price? A. Call option A will have a higher price. B. Call option B will have a higher price. C. Call option A and call option B will have the same price. D. It’s impossible for two options on...
Find the price of an American call option on a futures if the current spot price is 30, the exercise price is 25, the futures price is 33.70, the risk-free interest rate is 6 percent, the spot asset can go up by 10 percent or down by 8 percent per period and the call expires in two periods, which is also when the futures expires.
Evaluate and compute call and put options price for Star Ltd with reference to Black Scholes’ option pricing model, with a dividend payout of $ 2 in 30 days Star Ltd stock price = $ 60.25 Exercise price = $ 50 Risk free rate = 5.24% Call maturity = 270 days Stock volatility = 0.45
Calculate the price of a 45-day futures contract, if you know that 45-day call options on the underlying with strike of $258 trade for c=$22.3 and put options with the same maturity and exercise price trade for $10.2. The risk free rate is 1.5%. Please provide your answer rounded to two decimals.
10 Answer the following a. Suppose data are collected for a certain stock: Stock price Call price (1-year expiration, E $105) Put price (1-year expiration, E 105) $110 $17 $5 5% per year Risk-free interest rate Is there a mispricing of the call and put? If yes, can you exploit this mispricing to create arbitrage proft? b. Design a portfolio using only call options and the underlying stock with the following payoff at expiration: 0 10 20 30 40 S0...
12. The black-scholes OPM is dependent on which five parameters? a. stock price, exercise price, risk free rate, beta, and time to maturity b. stock price, risk free rate, beta, time to maturity, and variance c. stock price, risk free rate, probability, variance and exervise price d. stock price, exercise price, risk free rate, variance and time to maturity 13. a six-month call option has an exercise price of US$45 while the underlying stock currently sells for US$50. The call...