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Three six-month call options are traded on Digital Organics stock:
How would you make money by trading in Digital Organics options?
|
Exercise Price |
Call Option Price |
|
$90 |
$5 |
|
$100 |
$11 |
|
$110 |
$15 |
| 1) | In case of call options the price of option decreases with the increase in exercise price | ||||||||
| 2) | Because when the exercise price increases the demand for the call option will fall accordingly | ||||||||
| the price of the option should fall. | |||||||||
| 3) | In the given question the price of the Call option is $5 when the exercise price is $90. That means the | ||||||||
| the option holder can buy the underlying at $90. | |||||||||
| 4) | when the exercise price increased to $100 the option price was $ 11 and similarly when the | ||||||||
| exercise price was $110 the option price became $15. | |||||||||
| 5) | here we get an opportunity to have arbitrage gain . | ||||||||
| a. | Write as many as possible Call options with Exercise price $110 and then $100 | ||||||||
| b. | Buy Call Options with Exercise price $90 to settle the call Options written. | ||||||||
| c. | Gain shall be the differentials of exercise price and differentials of option prices | ||||||||