The average price call is a type of call option (predicting the price will go up) where the holder has the opportunity to buy the underlying asset. A type of exotic option (out of the ordinary), the payoff amount would be the average price by which the asset exceeds the strike price (the original agreed upon price) over a specific period of time.
Average price calls can be used for speculating or hedging, with the buyer having a bullish opinion of the asset.
For example, a corn grower in Iowa believes prices will be going up. So, she decides to hedge 1,000 bushels of corn for one month. Corn is now trading at $30 per bushel and an average price call option expiring in one month can be purchased for $3 with a strike price of $30. At the end of the month when the option is set to expire, if the average price of corn has gone up to $40 per bushel, the grower’s gain would be $7,000, which is the difference of $10 between the strike price and the average price minus the option premium paid of $3, times 1,000 bushels of corn.
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Finance: What is Intrinsic Value (of An ...6 Views
Finance allah shmoop what is the intrinsic value of an
option All right this is brandi She owns a twelve
dollars strike price call option toe buy a share of
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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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