Shares of a well-known fin-tech company are trading at $80. A Wall Street trader decides to buy knock-out barrier call options for the shares with a knock-out barrier of $95. Expiration date arrives, with the shares trading at $97. Now the options are expired and worthless.
In English? A barrier option is an option for which the payoff relies on the underlying asset exceeding or reaching a predetermined price.
It comes in two varieties: knock-in and knock-out. Knock-in means the option is worthless until the asset reaches the designated price, while knock-out means it is worthless if it exceeds said price. So, had the shares in our example been trading at $94 when the option expired, our Wall Street trader would have been in a much better position.
It's also a type of Trojan but, um, that's really a different story.
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Finance allah shmoop what is the intrinsic value of an
option All right this is brandi She owns a twelve
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Well the stock is trading for fifteen bucks a share
of this moment Her strike price is twelve so the
intrinsic value of that option is fifteen minutes twelve or
three bucks that is it is three dollars in the
money and if brandy converted it into a share this
moment and then immediately sold the stock for fifteen dollars
in cash well she'd make three bucks But there's a
catch per call option doesn't expire for five weeks so
that three dollars in the money is actually worth more
than three dollars because she has data or time yet
to exercise and convert or just sell the option itself
So it's worth mohr because well a stock might go
up from fifteen dollars in overtime Stocks go up so
in the next five weeks well couldn't go up a
dime twenty cents twenty five cents and make that three
Dollars worth three ten three twenty three Twenty five Sure
sure it could happen So yeah that's The difference between
actual value and intrinsic value You get seita kickers in
there making the option's worth more than just converting them
into stock and selling them right there And yeah it
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