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Financial derivatives
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Futures Contracts: Preliminaries
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practice
The June 2005 Mexican peso futures contract has a price of
$0.08845. You believe the spot price in June will be $0.09500.
What speculative position would you enter into to attempt to
profit from your beliefs?
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Calculate your anticipated profits, assuming you take a
position in three contracts (1 contract size is 500,000 Mexican
pesos).
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Foreign currency futures contracts differ from forward
contracts in a number of important ways:
Futures are standardized in terms of size while forwards
can be customized
Futures have fixed maturities while forwards can have any
maturity (both typically have maturities of one year or
less)
Trading on futures occurs on organized exchanges while
forwards are traded between individuals and banks
Futures have an initial margin that is marked to market
on a daily basis while only a bank relationship is needed
for a forward
Futures are rarely delivered upon (settled) while forwards
are normally delivered upon (settled)
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Standardizing Features
Contract size
Trading must be an even multiple of currency units
Currency Contract size
Australian dollar AD100,000
British pound 62,500
Canadian dollar CD100,000
Euro e125,000
Japanese yen U12,500,000
Swiss franc SF125,000
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Method of stating exchange rates
American quotes are used
Maturity date
Third Wed of Jan, Mar, Apr, Jun, Jul, Sep, Oct, Dec.
Last trading day
The 2nd business day prior to the Wed on which they
mature.
Commissions
Customers pay a commission to broker
Use of a clearinghouse as a counterparty
All contracts are agreements between the client and the
exchange clearing house
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Collateral and maintenance margins
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Daily resettlement: Example
Day 0 1 2 3
Futures price 100 98 96 97
Marking to market pay 2 pay 2 receive 1
Final payment for delivery pay 97
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Yesterday, you entered into a futures contract to buy EURO
100,000 at $1.25 per EURO. Your initial performance bond is
$3,000 and your maintenance level is $2,500. At what settle
price will you get a demand for additional funds to be posted?
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Currency Futures Markets
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The Chicago Mercantile Exchange
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Basic Currency Futures Relationships
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LIFETIME OPEN
OPEN HIGH LOW SETTLE CHG HIGH LOW INT
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Options Contracts: Preliminaries
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Options Contracts: Preliminaries
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European vs. American options
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Moneyness
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The total value (premium) of an option is equal to the
intrinsic value plus time value.
Intrinsic value is the financial gain if the option is exercised
immediately.
For a call option, intrinsic value is zero when the strike
price is above the market price
When the spot price rises above the strike price, the
intrinsic value become positive
Put options behave in the opposite manner
At maturity, an option will have a value equal to its
intrinsic value (zero time remaining means zero time
value)
The time value of an option exists because the price of the
underlying currency, the spot rate, can potentially move
further and further into the money between the present time
and the options expiration date.
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practice
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PHLX Currency Option Specifications
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Basic Option Pricing Relationships at Expiry
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At expiry, an American put option is worth the same as a
European option with the same characteristics.
If the put is in-the-money, it is worth E ST .
If the put is out-of-the-money, it is worthless.
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You just bought a Dec GBP call option with an exercise price
of $1.20/. At expiration, the value of the call option is
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You just bought a Mar EUR put option with an exercise price
of $1.35/e. At expiration, the value of the put option is
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Profit
Long 1 call
ST
c0
E + c0
E
Out-of-the-money In-the-money
loss
c0
ST
E + c0
E
short 1
loss Out-of-the-money In-the-money call
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Profit
E p0
p0 ST
E p0 long 1 put
E
In-the-money Out-of-the-money
loss
If the put is in-the-money, it is worth E ST . The Maximum
gain is E p0
p0
ST
E p0 short 1 put
E
E + p0
loss
If the put is in-the-money, it is worth E ST . The Maximum
loss is E + p0
Long 1 call
on 1 pound
$0.25 ST
$1.75
$1.50
loss
Consider a call option on 31,250.
The option premium is $0.25 per pound
The exercise price is $1.50 per pound.
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Profit
For a contract
Long 1 call
on 31,250
$7,812.50 ST
$1.75
$1.50
loss
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What is the Maximum loss on this call option?
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Profit
$42,187.50
$4,687.50 ST
$1.35 Long 1 put
$1.50 on 31,250
loss
Consider a put option on 31,250.
The option premium is $0.15 per pound
The exercise price is $1.50 per pound.
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What is the Maximum gain on this put option?
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practice
From the perspective of the writer of a put option written
on e62,500. If the strike price is $1.25/e, and the option
premium is $1,875, at what exchange rate do you start to lose
money?
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Suppose that you buy a e1,000,000 call option against
dollars with a strike price of $1.2750/e. Describe this option
as the right to sell a specific amount of dollars for euros at a
particular exchange rate of euros per dollar. Why is this latter
option a dollar put option against the euro?
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European Option boundary
L
Borrowing the present value of the exercise price of
E
the call in the U.S. at i$ the cash flow today is 1+i $
Lending the present value of St at i the cash flow
St
today is 1+i
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When the option is in-the-money both strategies have the
same payoff.
When the option is out-of-the-money it has a higher payoff
than the borrowing and lending strategy.
Thus:
St E
Ce Max ,0
1 + i 1 + i$
Using a similar portfolio to replicate the upside potential of a
put, we can show that:
E St
Pe Max ,0
1 + i$ 1 + i
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Recall interest rate parity (IRP)
1 + i$ F ($/)
=
1 + i S($/)
so we can rewrite
F E
Ce Max ,0
1 + i$ 1 + i$
Using a similar portfolio to replicate the upside potential of a
put, we can show that:
E F
Pe Max ,0
1 + i$ 1 + i$
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Assume that the dollar-euro spot rate is $1.2801 and the
six-month forward rate is $1.2864. The annual U.S. dollar rate
is 5% and the Euro rate is 4%. The minimum price that a
six-month European call option with a striking price of $1.25
should sell for in a rational market is
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American Option boundary
Ca > Ce ; and
Ca Max[St E, 0].
Pa > Pe ; and
Pa Max[E St , 0].
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American Option boundary
A tighter bound...
St E
Ca Max , St E, 0
1 + i 1 + i$
E St
Pa Max , E St , 0
1 + i$ 1 + i
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Assume that the dollar-euro spot rate is $1.2801 and the
six-month forward rate is $1.2864. The annual U.S. dollar rate
is 5% and the Euro rate is 4%. The minimum price that a
six-month American call option with a striking price of $1.25
should sell for in a rational market is
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Put-Call parity
No arbitrage relationship;
links the common strike price of $/, dollar prices of
European-style put and call options at that strike price, and
the U.S. interest rate.
F = E + (C P ) [1 + i$ ]
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practice problem
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What is the synthetic forward rate obtained by buying a call
and writing a put?
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Binomial Option Pricing Model
The binomial option pricing model assumes that the price
of the underlying asset follows a binomial distribution
that is, the asset price in each period can move only up or
down by a specified amount
Imagine a world where the spot exchange rate is
S0 ($/e) = $1.50/e, today, and in the next year S1 ($/e)
is either $1.80/e, or $1.20/e.
e10,000 will change from $15,000 to either $18,000 or
$12,000.
A call option on e10,000 with strike price
S0 ($/e) = $1.50 will payoff either $3,000 or zero.
If S1 ($/e) = $1.800/e, the option is in-the-money since
you can buy e10,000 (worth $18,000 at
S1 ($/e) = $1.80/e) for only $15,000.
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Binomial Option Pricing Model
$15, 000@
@
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Binomial Option Pricing Model
We can replicate the payoffs of the call option by taking a
long position in a bond with value of e5,000 in the future
along with the right amount of dollar-denominated
borrowing (in this case borrow the value of $6,000 in the
future).
The portfolio payoff in one period matches the option
payoffs:
C0
@
@
@
R$6, 000 $6, 000
@ = $0 = C1d
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Binomial Option Pricing Model
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The Binomial Solution
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The Binomial Solution (contd)
uS Cu
S@ C@
@ @
@ @
RdS
@ @RCd
The value of the replicating portfolio at time T , with spot rate
ST , is
ST eif T + B eid T
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The Binomial Solution (contd)
( uSeif T ) + (B eid T ) = Cu
( dSeif T ) + (B eid T ) = Cd
Solving for and B gives
Cu Cd
= eif T
S(u d)
uC d dCu
B = eid T
ud
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The Binomial Solution (contd)
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Risk-Neutral Pricing
(id if )T (id if )T
We can interpret the terms e ud d and ue
ud
as
probabilities
Let
e(id if )T d
p = (3)
ud
Then equation (1) can then be written as
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Lets verify
What is the ?
What is the B?
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Lets verify
What is the p ?
What is the C0 ?
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