Stock options are one of the riskiest and potentially lucrative financial instruments available to investors. Stock options give the investor the right to buy or sell a particular stock for a stated price within a specified period of time. For example, on December 20th, an investor who believed that the stock of Apple Computer, Inc. was underpriced at $171.54, could buy an option to purchase 100 shares of Apple for $176.00 per share at any time until December 31st. The price of the option was $2.60 per share. Assume the investor purchased the option for $260.00 and Apple stock rose to $179.85 on Dec 23rd. Further, assume the investor exercised the option and bought the stock for $176.00 per share on Dec 23rd and immediately sold the stock for $179.85 per share.

Learn Corp. (Ticker: LC), an education technology company, is considered to be one of the least risky companies in the education sector. Investors trade call options for Learn Corp., whose stock is currently trading at $18.00. Suppose you are interested in buying a call option with a strike price of $25.20 that expires in 6 months. (Assume that you get the option for free!) Based on speculations and probability analysis, you compute and collect the following information for your price analysis of the option: • For LC’s options, time until expiration (t) is taken as 0.50 year (6 months/12 months). • LC’s stock could go up by a factor of 1.50 (u). • LC’s stock could decline by a factor of 0.60 (d).   At this time, LC’s stock price is    , and if you exercised the option, your payoff would be    . Therefore, if the option is out-of-the-money, you    exercise the option.   Calculate the ending stock price of Learn Corp. for both possible outcomes and the payoff in both…

Consider a U.S. exchange-traded call option contract to buy 100 shares with a strike price of $37 and maturity in six months. Explain how the terms of the option contract would be revised if the specified change involving the underlying stock were to occur. What would be the revised strike price contract if there were a 5-for 1 stock split? Report your answer rounded to dollars and cents. Answer:

Suppose you have an option to buy a share of ABC Corp stock for $100. The option expires tomorrow, and the current price of ABC Corp is $95. How much is your option worth?

En Zahir, the CFO of Cahaya Berhad believes that all corporate securities have implicit or explicit option features and as a result, understanding securities that possess option features requires knowledge of the factors that determine an option's value. En Zahir is also aware that the most familiar options are stock options. On 13th June 2024, En Zahir buys call options on 50,000 units of Jelantas Berhad shares with an exercise price of RM40 per unit. The value of the options is RM2 per unit and the termination date is on 30th June 2024. On 30th June 2024, the share price of Jelantas Berhad share is RM42. From the above information you are required to compute En Zahir's gain or losses. Based on your computation, explain to En Zahir about this situation.

(c) A risk-neutral competitive market maker clears the market for trading in a stock after observing the incoming orders from a noise trader and an informed trader (who perfectly knows the true value of the stock). The noise trader buys and sells 1 share of the stock with equal probability, whereas the informed trader buys the stock if the value is $14 (high) and sells the stock if the value is $5 (low). The market maker believes initially that there is a 45% probability of high value and a 55% probability of low value. What profits can the informed trader expect to make in this market?

On January 1 2021 you buy shares of an s&p index ETF at $370 each. You are concerned about the possible drop in value of the large cap equities before year end. The S&P 500 currently is at $4,669. You decide to buy an at-the – money put option on the s&p 500 index to insulate your portfolio from a decline in equity prices. Each put ( assume one put per ETF share)is prived at $56 and expires on 31 december. If the s&p is at $4680 on 31 december an dyour ETF position is priced at $468, what is the annualized percent return on entire investment in the ETF, including the put

A put option in finance allows you to sell a share of stock at a given price in the future. There are different types of put options. A European put option allows you to sell a share of stock at a given price, called the exercise price, at a particular point in time after the purchase of the option. For example, suppose you purchase a six-month European put option for a share of stock with an exercise price of $26. If six months later, the stock price per share is $26 or more, the option has no value. If in six months the stock price is lower than $26 per share, then you can purchase the stock and immediately sell it at the higher exercise price of $26. If the price per share in six months is $22.50, you can purchase a share of the stock for $22.50 and then use the put option to immediately sell the share for $26. Your profit would be the difference, $26 – $22.50 = $3.50 per share, less the cost of the option. If you paid $1.00 per put option, then your profit would be $3.50 – $1.00 =…