For the following problems assume the eective 6-month interest rate is 2% and the S&R 6-month forward price is $1020, and use these premiums for S&R options with 6 months to expiration:
Strike call put
$950 $120.405 $51.777
1000 93.809 74.201
1020 84.470 84.470
1050 71.802 101.214
1107 51.873 137.167
(a) Construct payoff and profit diagrams for the purchase of a 950-strike S&R call and sale of a 1000-strike S&R call. Verify that you obtain exactly the same profit diagram for the purchase of a 950-strike S&R put and sale of a 1000-strike S&R
put. What is the dierence in the payo diagrams for the call and put spreads? Why is there a difference?
(b) Compute profit diagrams for the following ratio spreads:
i. Buy 950-strike call, sell two 1050-strike calls.
ii. Buy two 950-strike calls, sell three 1050-strike calls.
iii. Consider buying n 950-strike calls and selling m 1050-strike calls so that the premium of the position is zero. Considering your analysis in (a) and (b),
what can you say about n=m? What exact ratio gives you a zero premium?