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The document asks how to value a perpetual American put under simplified assumptions: a positive interest rate, zero volatility, and no dividends. It identifies the strike and interest rate as the relevant inputs and acknowledges that pricing involves…
The document explores an apparent tension between Black–Scholes's constant-volatility assumption and the use of vega and vomma, which describe option-value sensitivity to volatility and changes in that sensitivity. The responses characterize Black–Scholes as…
The document raises a model-validation question using an empirical study that estimates implied volatilities for a full option sample and then for subsets split by moneyness and maturity. Differences among the subset estimates are presented as evidence that…
The document reports two problems with RQuantLib’s Bermudan swaption function: an error saying the effective date is at or beyond the termination date, followed by rejection of a negative zero rate when the term structure is supplied. The question includes…
The document examines whether delta, gamma, and vega can be meaningfully aggregated across a portfolio containing equities, convertible bonds, and options. The answer explains that standard option Greeks are partial derivatives with respect to an…
The document checks the probability that a stock priced at $27 will finish above a $28 strike one day later, assuming zero interest and 15% annual volatility. It applies the Black–Scholes d₂ expression and translates annual volatility into daily volatility…
The document asks whether a buy-side trader can adjust interest rate option models to reflect a directional view on forward rates, including the fact that central bank rates move in fixed increments. The response says to price swaptions, caps, and floors…
The document distinguishes stripped mortgage-backed securities with interest-only and principal-only classes from IO or PO classes created inside a collateralized mortgage obligation. In the former structure, a mega pool issues paired classes that may,…
The document asks how to express payoffs for a GBPUSD European option with a knock-in feature and leverage when the contract notional is specified in USD. It describes an upside payoff when the terminal exchange rate exceeds the strike and a leveraged…
The document asks whether an arbitrage-free call-price slice necessarily implies that the risk-neutral density inferred from its second strike derivative has a mean equal to the current underlying price. It frames the question in terms of a given…
The document discusses implementing the Longstaff–Schwartz least-squares Monte Carlo method for valuing American options. The author reports matching prices in one volatility case from the paper’s first table but obtaining lower estimates in a higher…
The document presents a VBA implementation of a trinomial tree for valuing European call and put options. It builds the underlying price states using up, middle, and down moves, assigns probabilities from volatility and the risk-free rate adjusted for…
The document sets up a payer swaption payoff using a forward swap rate and an annuity numeraire, then changes from the forward measure to the annuity measure to express the price as an expectation of the positive part of the rate difference. It asks how to…
The document explains why the interest rate in put-call parity is not always a single universal risk-free rate. The relevant rate depends on how the position is financed and implemented. For collateralized or margined trades, one answer points to the rate…
The document considers whether a trader executing a large stock sale should also buy a put to benefit from any downward price impact caused by the sale. The proposed idea is framed as profiting from one’s own impact while completing an intended equity trade.…
The document asks whether an equity option spread whose legs share an expiration can be represented by one exact volatility. It contrasts this with a calendar spread discussion in an options text, where a forward volatility is found by adjusting volatility…
The document explains how to estimate bucket vegas for a portfolio of vanilla and exotic options priced with a Dupire local volatility model. Its central procedure is to bump selected parts of the implied volatility surface, recalculate the local volatility…
The discussion offers several explanations for why implied-volatility skew or smile may be less pronounced for longer-dated options. One account points to jumps: a jump can have a stronger effect over a short horizon, while its influence may be averaged over…
The note explains how to interpret Eurodollar futures prices when considering the volatility of options on the contract. Eurodollar futures are quoted near 100 minus an interest rate, so the answer converts a futures price into its corresponding rate by…
The document works through a two-period binomial model for European call and put options on a non-dividend-paying stock. It sets up up and down factors from volatility and the half-year step length, computes the risk-neutral up probability, enumerates…
The document distinguishes three contracts that can be described as an option on a foreign-currency stock but have different payoffs. If a USD payoff is converted at a predetermined exchange rate, the contract is a quanto. If the strike is in EUR while the…
The document compares ways to access interest rate swaption implied volatility data. It points to a daily volatility surface published by CME and describes Bloomberg screens that provide normalized or at-the-money-forward volatility across option expiries,…
The document distinguishes pricing options on futures from options on spot assets. In the Black formula for a futures option, the futures price is the underlying input, and the option payoff is discounted using the applicable discount rate. The futures price…
The response distinguishes an option's no-arbitrage fair value from an investor's forecast of the underlying asset. In the standard replication framework, fair value is the cost of establishing a hedging portfolio and equals the discounted expected payoff…