Session 17: Derivative Investments: Options, Swaps, and Interest Rate and Credit Derivatives Reading 60: Option Markets and Contracts
LOS h: Demonstrate the methods for estimating the future volatility of the underlying asset (i.e., the historical volatility and the implied volatility methods).
In order to compute the implied asset price volatility for a particular option, an investor:
A) |
must have a series of asset prices. | |
B) |
must have the market price of the option. | |
C) |
does not need to know the risk-free rate. | |
In order to compute the implied volatility we need the risk-free rate, the current asset price, the time to expiration, the exercise price, and the market price of the option. |