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Options and Volatility

The pricing discipline: payoffs, no-arbitrage, binomial and Black-Scholes pricing, the Greeks, and volatility.

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01Option Fundamentals

Calls and PutsFreePayoff Diagrams and MoneynessFree
Intrinsic and Time ValueMembers
Option Strategies: Spreads, Straddles, and ButterfliesMembers

02No-Arbitrage Pricing

The Law of One PriceMembers
Put-Call ParityMembers
Arbitrage Bounds on Option PricesMembers

03Binomial Pricing

The One-Step Binomial ModelMembers
Risk-Neutral ValuationMembers
Multi-Step Binomial ModelsMembers

04The Black-Scholes Model

Model AssumptionsMembers
The Black-Scholes FormulaMembers
Practical Approximation MethodsMembers

05The Greeks

Delta and Delta HedgingMembers
GammaMembers
Theta and VegaMembers

06Volatility

Realised and Implied VolatilityMembers
Straddles and the Implied MoveMembers
The Volatility SmileMembers