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NARA [144]
3 years ago
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The current stock price of Alcoa is $25, and the stock does not pay dividends. The instantaneous risk-free rate of return is 4%.

The instantaneous standard deviation of Alcoco's stock is 30%. You want to purchase a put option on this stock with an exercise price of $30 and an expiration date 30 days from now. According to the Black-Scholes OPM, you should hold __________ shares of stock per 100 put options to hedge your risk.
Business
1 answer:
hichkok12 [17]3 years ago
7 0

Answer:

≈66 shares

Explanation:

Given data:

Current price ( S ) = $25

strike price ( K ) = $30

risk free rate ( r ) = 4% = 0.04

Standard deviation ( std ) = 30% = 0.3

In( s/k ) = In ( 25/30 ) = -0.1827

t = 30 / 365

To determine the number of shares of stock per 100 put options to hedge the risk we will apply the relation below

Number of shares to hedge risk = | N(d1) - 1 |  * 100 ----- ( 1 )

where :

d1 = \frac{In(\frac{s}{k}) + ( r +\frac{std^2}{2})*t  }{std\sqrt{2} }

N(d1 ) = cumulative distribution function = 0.3394

back to equation 1 = 0.6606 * 100 = 66 shares

attached below is the remaining part of the  solution

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