Suppose a market-maker writes a European call option on a nondividend-paying stock with strike price 50 and 3 months to
Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2022 8:34 am
Suppose a market-maker writes a European call option on a nondividend-paying stock with strike price 50 and 3 months to expiration. Given the current stock price 50, the cost of delta hedging for the market-maker is 30.895. Suppose the annualized continuously compounded risk-free rate is 10%. Then, what is the implied volatility of the stock given that it is less than 1?