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on the hedge ratio of a call option as stock price becomes very large.
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- In a binomial tree created to value an option on a stock, what is the expected return on the option? O Zero O The return required by the market O The risk-free rate O It depends on the volatility ALarrow_forwardAn efficient capital market is best defined as a market in which security prices reflect which one of the following? Multiple Choice A Current inflation B A risk premium C All available information D The historical arithmetic rate of return E The historical geometric rate of returnarrow_forwardIf you are creating an option play that benefits from a VOLATILITY strategy, you expect the stock price to do what? ○ Go down Go up OR down, by a lot Go up O Remain right around its current pricearrow_forward
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- What impact does each of the followingparameters have on the value of a call option?(5) Variability of the stock pricearrow_forwardSuppose stocks X and Y have equal current prices but different volatilities of returns, ax < øy; what would be more expensive: a call option on X or Y? Please discuss.arrow_forwardWhat effect does Stock Price have on call option price? What effect does Time expiration have on call option price? What effect does Risk-free rate have on call option price? What effect does Standard Deviation of Stock returns have on call option price?arrow_forward
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