Suppose you had just gone long (purchased) on lot of Syarikat XYZ stock at a price of RM 15.00 each, for a total investment of RM 15,000. You believe this stock has long term potential but wish to protect yourself from any short-term downside movement in price. Suppose 3-month, at-the-money put options on Syarikat XYZ stocks are being quoted at RM 0.15 or 15 sen each or RM 150 per lot (RM 0.15 x 1,000). a. What would be the appropriate options strategy to hedge the long stock position? b. Show (in a table) the payoff to the combined position for a given range of stocks prices at options maturity in 3-months. c. Draw the payoff profile of combined positions.
Suppose you had just gone long (purchased) on lot of Syarikat XYZ stock at a price of RM 15.00 each, for a total investment of RM 15,000. You believe this stock has long term potential but wish to protect yourself from any short-term downside movement in price. Suppose 3-month, at-the-money put options on Syarikat XYZ stocks are being quoted at RM 0.15 or 15 sen each or RM 150 per lot (RM 0.15 x 1,000). a. What would be the appropriate options strategy to hedge the long stock position? b. Show (in a table) the payoff to the combined position for a given range of stocks prices at options maturity in 3-months. c. Draw the payoff profile of combined positions.
Chapter20: Financing With Derivatives
Section20.A: The Black-scholes Option Pricing Model
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Suppose you had just gone long (purchased) on lot of Syarikat XYZ stock at a price of RM 15.00 each, for a total investment of RM 15,000. You believe this stock has long term potential but wish to protect yourself from any short-term downside movement in price. Suppose 3-month, at-the-money put options on Syarikat XYZ stocks are being quoted at RM 0.15 or 15 sen each or RM 150 per lot (RM 0.15 x 1,000).
a. What would be the appropriate options strategy to hedge the long stock
position?
b. Show (in a table) the payoff to the combined position for a given range of
stocks prices at options maturity in 3-months.
c. Draw the payoff profile of combined positions.
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