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Month: June 2019

Option prices: Why calls trade cheap and puts trade dear

August 23, 2022June 6, 2019 by Guy Thomas

First, I need to be clear what I mean by “cheap” and “dear”. In this blog, I characterise an option as cheap (dear) if its price today is below (above) its expected value at maturity, discounted at the risk-free rate back to today. The expected value at maturity is calculated using a reasonable assumption for … Read more

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