Straddle delta given a put delta of minus 0.31
Question
Under Black–Scholes, a put with strike and expiry has delta . What is the delta of a straddle on the same stock with the same strike and expiry?
Short answer
. Put–call parity gives , so the call's delta is . The straddle holds one of each, so its delta is , which is not zero even though straddles are often thought of as direction-neutral.
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