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A contract that gives the owner the right, but not the obligation, to buy or sell a security at a fixed price in the future.

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Delta re-hedging with options

One is that the underlying may not be accessible, while you can buy/sell options on exchange or OTC. The other (more important) reason is your position on other greeks (gamma, vega, etc). … With appropriate options you can adjust both your delta and other greeks. …
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For equity options, why sometimes ATM vol of shorter expiration is higher than that of longe...

For index options, it's probably rare. But for single name options, I've seen a bunch of examples on Bloomberg. Does this relationship admit some weak form of arbitrage? …
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Interpertation of delta hedge error in Black Scholes

Based on this article, I think you can call it the PV of cost of carry minus gamma P&L, i.e. you lose money on gamma because of the positive hedging error. it just help me realize my hedge error i …
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Question on implied vol (surface) and strikes

In this case, we'd be happy to buy high/low strike options if vol is flat, effectively ATM/OTM option prices are bid up, therefore the implied vol. …
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What the implied distribution really is?

I'm not a probabilist but I tend to think real-world distribution in financial world doesn't exist (or at least is not a proper term). None of the financial events are really repeatable or IID. And t …
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Derivation of the formulas for the values of European asset-or-nothing and cash-or-nothing o...

The value of an cash-or-nothing option is just the discounted expected payoff of the option. So the value of such a call should be $e^{-r (T - t)} N \mathbb{P} \left\{ S_T > K \right\}$, where $\mathb …
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