Put-Call Parity

Free SOA Exam FAM (Fundamentals of Actuarial Mathematics) lesson in Option Pricing Fundamentals. 13 min read, ~2,006 words.

Parity (European, non-dividend):, equivalently. Find a missing price:, or. Always discount the strike to its present value, never the raw. Synthetic positions: any one of {C, P, S, bond} equals a combination of the other three. Violations create riskless arbitrage; profit equals the absolute difference between the two sides.

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