Expected payoff of an at-the-money call with normal prices
Question
Suppose the stock price at expiry is normally distributed with mean equal to today's price and standard deviation . What is the expected payoff of a call struck at ?
Short answer
. The payoff is with standard normal, and .
Adapted from Joshi, Denson & Downes, Quant Job Interview Questions and Answers, Q2.20, p.18; question and answer rewritten by SelfMadeQuant.com.
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- Market Model and Risk-Neutral Valuation
- Expectation, Mean, and Variance
- Conditional Expectation and Variance Revisited
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