(a) The table below gives information about European options with a maturity date of 6 months. Type Of option Strike Price Call 65 Call 58 Put 65 Premium 5 8 4 (i) Devise the payoff profile of the hedging strategy from the above for an investor betting on an increase in the stock price and calculate the payoff if the stock price increases to $66 after 6 months. (8 marks) (ii) Suppose that another investor expects a big stock price movement but is not sure of the direction. She however bets that the downward movement is more likely. Devise the corresponding trading strategy and calculate the payoff if the stock price is $55 after 6 months. (8 marks) (b) By analysing the pay off profiles of a protective put strategy and a straddle, discuss in what ways these strategies shield the investor from potential losses.

QUESTION: 2. What is the fair value for a six-month European call option with a strike price of $135 over a stock which is trading at $138.15 and has a volatility of 42.5% when the risk free rate is 1.85% using the two step binomial tree? a) What is the delta of this option? b) What is the probability of an up movement in this stock? c) What is the probability of a down movement in this stock? d) What is the proportional move up for this stock e) What is the proportional move down for this stock f) What would be the value of the put option with the same strike price?

Based on Torelli’s scenarios, what is the mean return of GMS stock? What is the standard deviation of the return of GMS stock? 2. After a cursory examination of the put option prices, Torelli suspects that a good strategy is to buy one put option A for each share of GMS stock purchased. What are the mean and standard deviation of return for this strategy?

5. Explain and give appropriate use of the following option trading strategies along with their Payoff.: a. Spreads b. Straddles c. Strangles d. Covered Call and Protective Put. State Put-Call Parity theorem for European options. European put and call options with a strike price of Rs. 24 and expiry in 6-months are trading at Rs. 5.09 and Rs. 7.78, respectively. The current stock price is Rs. 20.37 with a risk-free interest rate continuously compounding equal to 7.48%. Is there an arbitrage opportunity? How can it be exploited?

Use the Black-Scholes formula for the following stock: Time to expiration Standard deviation Exercise price Stock price Interest rate |||||||||| Value of a call option = = 6 months 56 % per year 55 = 54 6% Calculate the value of a call option. (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to 2 decimal places. Omit the "S" sign in your response.)

In a financial market a stock is traded with a current price of 50. Next period the priceof the stock can either go up with 30 per cent or go down with 25 per cent. Risk-freedebt is available with an interest rate of 8 per cent. Also traded are European optionson the stock with an exercise price of 45 and a time to maturity of 1, i.e. they maturenext period.i) Find prices of Arrow-Debreu securities.

Please show step by step work (not in excel): What is the call option premium given the following information? What would happen to the call price if the company initiated and paid a dividend before the expiration of the option? What would happen to the call premium if the expiration of the option expanded beyond the current 9 months? Stock price   $36.00 Strike price $30.00 Volatility 16% Dividend Yield 0.00 Time 0.75 Riskfree Rate 2.70%

Black-Scholes Model Use the Black-Scholes model to find the price for a call option with the following inputs: (1) current stock price is $28, (2) strike price is $34, (3) time to expiration is 6 months, (4) annualized risk-free rate is 6%, and (5) variance of stock return is 0.09. Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to the nearest cent. $

Suppose that call options on XYZ stock with time to expiration 3 months and strike price $90 are selling at an implied volatility of 30% ExxonMobil stock price is $90 per share, and the risk free rate is 4%. Required: a1 If you believe the true volatility of the stock is 32%, would you want to buy or sell call options? a2-Now you want to hedge your option position against changes in the stock price. How many shares of stock will you hold for each option contract purchased or sold?

Suppose that on 27 October 2022, Wall Street Journal in New York presents the following price for 27 March 2023 call options on Microsoft stock (in $ USA) strike 75 80 85 price 11 7.96 5.5 while the annual interest rate is 4% per year. On this date (27 October 2022) the Microsoft stock was trading at $81.625. Suppose we decide that the volatility of the market is 30%. Should you buy the call option as the European one with strike price $80? Justify your answer.