Which of the following is true? O An American call on a non-dividend paying stock will be worth more than a Europea that same stock. O A stock is equivalent to a long call, short put and long risk-free bond. The put-call parity rule for American options is stated as equalities. The time value of a call is greatest when the stock price is very high.

Which of the following is true? O An American call on a non-dividend paying stock will be worth more than a Europea that same stock. O A stock is equivalent to a long call, short put and long risk-free bond. The put-call parity rule for American options is stated as equalities. The time value of a call is greatest when the stock price is very high.

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European plain vanilla call options with strikes 30 and 35 on the same non- dividend paying asset with spot price $ 35 are trading for $ 11.50 and $ 7, respectively. Does arbitrage exist, and if so, how do you take advantage of it?
You hold a portfolio of an asset-or-nothing call and a cash-or-nothing put option written on a stock that does not pay dividends. The strike price of the options is the same. The payout of the cash-or- nothing option if it is exercised equals the strike price. Your portfolio is equivalent to O A plain-vanilla call option. O None of the other answers are correct. O A covered call position, i.e., a long stock + short plain vanilla call. O A plain-vanilla put option. O A protective put position, i.e., a long stock + long put option.
(a) What is the expected shape of a futures curve for cotton (a storable commodity)? What about for live hogs (a non-storable commodity)? (b) Explain why a rational economic agent may still choose to hold stocks even if the expected return on stocks is negative.
A butterfly spread is a position in three options on the same underlying stock with different strikes. An investor buys one call with a strike K1 = 22, sells two calls with a strike K2 = 24 and buys one call with a strike K3 = 26. What is the payoff of the butterfly spread, if the stock price equals $26 at maturity?
2. Calculate the put premium according to put-call parity which gives no arbitrage opportunity. Explain what transaction would you do if the put premium is below/above the put premium you calculated. European call option premium: c = $2 Stock price today: So- $30 Life of option: T=0.5 Risk-free rate for maturity T with continous compounding: r= 8% Strike price: K= Decide on the K value yourself (carefully). No dividends paid during life of option.
A) Does this model satisfy the no-arbitrage assumption? B) Calculate the risk-neutral probabilities of up and down movements in the share price. C) Determine the no-arbitrage price of a European call option on the share with strike price K=70 and expiry time T=2.
A trading strategy called INVE3000 strategy, is created by taking two long calls (with strike K_1, premium c_1), one short put (with strike K_2 and premium p_2), and one long put (with strike K_3 and premium of p_3). We know that K_1<K_2<K_3. Please express the break-even stock prices using K_1,K_2,K_3 and c_1,p_2,p_3.
Which statement below is incorrect? Select one: A. The four "V" features of big data include volume, variety, value, and velocity. B. When the price of the underlying asset increases, the call option price will increase while the put option price will decrease. C. The Fama-French High-Minus-Low portfolio (HML) is a strategy that attempts to buy stocks with high prices and sell stocks with low prices. D. The passive mutual funds charge a lower administration fee than the active mutual funds.

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