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Category: Level II Derivatives
Strangle
If you haven’t read the article on option strategies in general, that’s a good place to start, then return here. In particular, if you haven’t read the warning about calculating profit that appears at the end of that article, you should go read it now; the way I’m calculating the profit here is correct, but…
Straddle
If you haven’t read the article on option strategies in general, that’s a good place to start, then return here. In particular, if you haven’t read the warning about calculating profit that appears at the end of that article, you should go read it now; the way I’m calculating the profit here is correct, but…
(Equity) Collar
If you haven’t read the article on option strategies in general, that’s a good place to start, then return here. In particular, if you haven’t read the warning about calculating profit that appears at the end of that article, you should go read it now; the way I’m calculating the profit here is correct, but…
Butterfly Spread
If you haven’t read the article on option strategies in general, that’s a good place to start, then return here. In particular, if you haven’t read the warning about calculating profit that appears at the end of that article, you should go read it now; the way I’m calculating the profit here is correct, but…
Bull Spread
If you haven’t read the article on option strategies in general, that’s a good place to start, then return here. In particular, if you haven’t read the warning about calculating profit that appears at the end of that article, you should go read it now; the way I’m calculating the profit here is correct, but…
Interest Rate Caps and Floors
Interest rate caps and floors are, essentially, collections of interest rate options: each option has a positive payoff when it expires in the money and a zero payoff when it expires out of the money. The individual options are called, respectively, caplets and floorlets. Note that caps and floors are commonly based on LIBOR or…
Binomial Pricing Trees (for Options)
Binomial trees are used in a variety of contexts in finance: Calculating probabilities for Bayes’ Formula type problems Calculating the value of options on stocks, commodities, and so on (you are here) Calculating the option-adjusted spread (OAS) for bonds Calculating the value of bonds with embedded options Calculating the value of floating-rate bonds Calculating the…
Valuing Equity Swaps
Equity swaps are just as easy to value as plain vanilla interest rate swaps; once again, as with all derivatives, the formula for the value is: \[Value\ =\ PV(what\ you\ will\ receive)\ –\ PV(what\ you\ will\ pay)\] If one leg is a fixed or floating rate, it is valued exactly as described for plain vanilla…
Pricing Equity Swaps
Remember that the price of a swap is the fixed rate on the swap. An equity swap can take many forms: The equity side can pay the return on a single stock, on a portfolio of stocks, or on an equity index. The equity side can pay only the price appreciation on the stock, portfolio,…
Valuing Currency Swaps
Currency swaps are only slightly more difficult to value than plain vanilla interest rate swaps; once again, as with all derivatives, the formula for the value is: \[Value\ =\ PV(what\ you\ will\ receive)\ –\ PV(what\ you\ will\ pay)\] Because the swap is equivalent to two bonds (one long, one short, one in one currency, one…