Lesson 1 of 5 · 13 min
Fiduciary call, protective put and put–call parity
A call plus a bond paying X and a share plus a put pay exactly the same at expiration, so they must cost the same today: .
In short
- A fiduciary call is a long European call plus a risk-free zero-coupon bond that pays X at expiration. It costs .
- A protective put is a long share plus a long European put on it. It costs .
- At expiration both portfolios are worth : X if the share ends below the exercise price, if it ends above.
- Identical payoffs in every state mean identical prices today. This is put–call parity: .
- Parity needs European options on the same underlying with the same exercise price and expiration, and (in this reading) an underlying with no income or costs.
- Rearranged, parity gives the no-arbitrage put price from a traded call, or the call price from a traded put.
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