Question: (a) Assume that you own a put and a call option on a particular share, both exercisable at $10 and with the same expiration date. Plot your payoff on the expiration date of these options as a function of the share price at that time.
(b) Assume that you issued or sold
(i) a call option,
(ii) a put option, and
(iii) a put and a call option with the same expiration date on a particular share, each exercisable at $10. For each case, plot your payoff on the expiration date as a function of the share price at that time.
(c) Would anyone ever buy/sell both the put and call options at the same time? Explain.