Pricing a call on a 130-or-70 one-year tree
Question
A stock is at $100 and in one year will be either $130 or $70, with real-world probabilities and . Interest rates are zero. What is a one-year European call with strike $110 worth?
Short answer
$10. The risk-neutral up probability solves , so . The call pays in the up state, so it is worth . The real-world and do not enter the price; replicating with share and borrowing gives the same .
Adapted from Crack, Heard on the Street, Q2.53, p.31; question and answer rewritten by SelfMadeQuant.com.
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- The Binomial Model
- The One-Period Binomial Model: Replication, Delta Hedging, and Risk-Neutral Pricing
- Sample Spaces, Events, and the Probability Axioms
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