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### Arbitrage opportunity interview question

A similar question for put option has been discussed in this question: Finding Arbitrage in two Puts. Basically, the call option payoff is a convex function of the strike. Then the call option price ...
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For a sufficiently smooth function $f$, positive constant $a$, and $x>0$, Note that, \begin{align*} f(x) -f(a) &= \int_a^{x} f'(v) dv \\ &= \int_a^{x} \big[f'(v) -f'(a) + f'(a) \big] dv \\ &...
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### Prove that the butterfly condition is always greater than zero

You generally can't simply subtract two inequalities as you did in your attempt. Here are two approaches to solve your problem: No-Arbitrage Argument Assume that the initial value of the Butterfly ...
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### Do basket options have a closed form valuation formula?

I'm not completely certain from your question, but I'm going to assume you have a basket of $n$ stocks with prices $S_0(t)$ to $S_n(t)$, and you want to price an option with payoff at $C(\tau)$ at ...
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### Conceptual explanation of the relationship between gamma and vega plotted against delta for a European call option

Gamma and vega have the same general shape , peaking at ATM and tapering to the tails. But gamma concentrate as the option gets closer to expiry (when vega is small). For options a long way from ...
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### Option pricing and mean reversion

From the SDE \begin{align*} \frac{dS_t}{S_t}= k(\theta-\ln S_t) dt + \sigma dW_t, \end{align*} where $\{W_t,\, t\ge 0\}$ is a standard Brownian motion, we obtain that \begin{align*} d(e^{kt}\ln S_t) = ...
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### How do I prove that a certain price is price of European option in Black-Scholes framework

Yes it is actually just substituting it into the Black Scholes PDE. If the PDE is satisfied, $V(t,S(t)),t\ge 0$ is a martingale and hence $V(t,S(t)) = E_t (V(T,S(T))$ so that $V(t,S(t))$ is the ...
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