The Black-Scholes price of a three-month European call with strike price 100 on a stock that trades

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The Black-Scholes price of a three-month European call with strike price 100 on a stock that trades at 95 is 1.33, and its delta is 0.3. The price of a three-month pure discount risk-free bond (nominal 100) is 99. You sell the option for 1:50 and hedge your position. One month later (the hedge has not been adjusted), the price of the stock is 97, the market price of the call is 1:41, and its delta is 0.36. You liquidate the portfolio (buy the call and undo the hedge). Assume a constant risk-free interest rate and compute the net profit or loss resulting from the trade.
Strike Price
In finance, the strike price of an option is the fixed price at which the owner of the option can buy, or sell, the underlying security or commodity.
Portfolio
A portfolio is a grouping of financial assets such as stocks, bonds, commodities, currencies and cash equivalents, as well as their fund counterparts, including mutual, exchange-traded and closed funds. A portfolio can also consist of non-publicly...
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Organic Chemistry

ISBN: 9788120307209

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Authors: Robert Thornton Morrison, Robert Neilson Boyd

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