With all other variables being equal (the same excerise price, underlying asset, implied volatility, interest rate, etc.), an at-the-money option with 30 days to expiration will tpyically have a gamma that is higher than an at-the-moeny option with 180 days to expiration (hint: think of the different shapes of the associated probability distribution and the change in delta)    True or False?

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With all other variables being equal (the same excerise price, underlying asset, implied volatility, interest rate, etc.), an at-the-money option with 30 days to expiration will tpyically have a gamma that is higher than an at-the-moeny option with 180 days to expiration (hint: think of the different shapes of the associated probability distribution and the change in delta) 

 

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