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Continuing on the example above, suppose now that the initial price of Alice's house is $100,000 and that Bob enters into a forward contract to buy the house one year from today. But since Alice knows that she can immediately sell for $100,000 and place the proceeds in the bank, she wants to be compensated for the delayed sale.
Regarding the argument of Carr and Lee (2009), [3] in the case of the continuous- sampling realized volatility if we assumes that the contract begins at time =, () is deterministic and () is arbitrary (deterministic or a stochastic process) but independent of the price's movement i.e. there is no correlation between () and , and denotes by ...
A cliquet option or ratchet option is an exotic option consisting of a series of consecutive forward start options. [1] The first is active immediately. The second becomes active when the first expires, etc. Each option is struck at-the-money when it becomes active. [2]
The swap contract therefore, can be seen as a series of forward contracts. In the end there are two streams of cash flows , one from the party who is always paying a fixed interest on the notional amount, the fixed leg of the swap, the other from the party who agreed to pay the floating rate, the floating leg .
Continuing the example from the composite option, the payoff of an IBM quanto call option would then be ((),), where is the exchange rate fixed at the outset of the trade. This would be useful for traders in Japan who wish to be exposed to IBM stock price without exposure to JPY/USD exchange rate.
The payoff at maturity depends not just on the value of the underlying instrument at maturity, but also on its value at several times during the contract's life (for example an Asian option depending on some average, a lookback option depending on the maximum or minimum, a barrier option which ceases to exist if a certain level is reached or ...
The forward price (or sometimes forward rate) is the agreed upon price of an asset in a forward contract. [1] [2] Using the rational pricing assumption, for a forward contract on an underlying asset that is tradeable, the forward price can be expressed in terms of the spot price and any dividends. For forwards on non-tradeables, pricing the ...
For example, for bond options [3] the underlying is a bond, but the source of uncertainty is the annualized interest rate (i.e. the short rate). Here, for each randomly generated yield curve we observe a different resultant bond price on the option's exercise date; this bond price is then the input for the determination of the option's payoff.