Question

"If the option will cost the investor an additional $10,000, should the investor purchase the option? Enter your answer in thousands dollars. For example, an answer of $200 thousands should be entered as 200,000."

Answer 1

Answer:

“Should” or “should not” depend on the cost rate of the option and the risk appetite of investors.

Explanation:

An option is a contract that allows investors to buy or sell instruments such as security, Exchanged Traded Fund or an index at a pre-determined price over a certain period of time.

If the option will cost the investor an additional $10,000 and it is the cost for an option of $10 million investment, then it cost only 0.1% additionally, but it can secure the position of this investment; then the investor should buy this option.

Vice versa, if the additional $10,000 is much more than expected profit, and even lower but significantly drop down the total profit of an investment; and the investor always wish to have a high profit regardless high risk; then he shouldn’t buy this option.