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If it is worth more, then the difference is a guide to the likelihood of early exercise. In practice, one can calculate the Black–Scholes price of a European option that is equivalent to the American option (except for the exercise dates). The difference between the two prices can then be used to calibrate the more complex American option model.
For example, suppose a call option with a strike price of $100 for DEF stock is sold at $1.00 and a call option for DEF with a strike price of $110 is purchased for $0.50, and at the option's expiration the price of the stock or index is less than the short call strike price of $100, then the return generated for this position is:
At each final node of the tree—i.e. at expiration of the option—the option value is simply its intrinsic, or exercise, value: Max [ (S n − K), 0 ], for a call option Max [ (K − S n), 0 ], for a put option, Where K is the strike price and is the spot price of the underlying asset at the n th period.
American-style option. American-style options can be exercised at any time prior to the expiration date. ... For example, if a call option has a strike price of $40, a premium of $8, and the stock ...
The options trader makes a profit of $200, or the $400 option value (100 shares * 1 contract * $4 value at expiration) minus the $200 premium paid for the call.
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In fact, the Black–Scholes formula for the price of a vanilla call option (or put option) can be interpreted by decomposing a call option into an asset-or-nothing call option minus a cash-or-nothing call option, and similarly for a put—the binary options are easier to analyze, and correspond to the two terms in the Black–Scholes formula.
Margrabe's model of the market assumes only the existence of the two risky assets, whose prices, as usual, are assumed to follow a geometric Brownian motion.The volatilities of these Brownian motions do not need to be constant, but it is important that the volatility of S 1 /S 2, σ, is constant.