The Vanna–Volga method to adjust for “exotic” versions of these things uses second-order sensitivities. A “smile” pattern that arises when plotting one “implied” value of these things deviates from an idealized model. Multiple of these things are combined in the “strip” and “straddle” strategies. Assuming Brownian motion and using Itô’s lemma gives an equation to model these things that won a Nobel Prize for Robert C. Merton. These things, which are said to be “in the money” if their intrinsic value is positive, can be priced by the Black–Scholes formula. Unlike their American type, the European type of these derivatives can only be exercised on their expiration date. For 10 points, what financial assets that grant the right to buy or sell a stock at a strike price include calls and puts? ■END■
| Eastern Canada | Main | Y | 13 | 69% | 0% | 54% | 108.56 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic (1) | Main | Y | 10 | 90% | 0% | 30% | 104.89 |
| Lower Midwest | Main | Y | 3 | 33% | 0% | 67% | 89.00 |
| Upper Midwest | Main | Y | 10 | 80% | 0% | 40% | 96.63 |
| Northeast | Main | Y | 11 | 100% | 0% | 27% | 96.45 |
| South Central | Main | Y | 8 | 75% | 0% | 38% | 96.83 |
| Southeast | Main | Y | 8 | 88% | 0% | 63% | 103.00 |
| UK | Main | Y | 14 | 79% | 0% | 64% | 103.64 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aryan Desarapu | Michigan B | Indiana B | 29 | -5 |
| Ella Warde | Warwick A | Sheffield A | 31 | -5 |
| Tony Chen | Toronto A | Toronto B | 31 | -5 |
| Arjun Kala | Illinois A | Louisville B | 45 | -5 |
| Davin Sivertson | Alabama B | Alabama A | 57 | -5 |
| Siddhant Kumar | Edinburgh B | Cambridge A | 57 | -5 |
| Henry Jameson | LSE A | Edinburgh A | 57 | 10 |
| Anirudh Terdal | LSE B | Manchester B | 57 | -5 |
| Denali Tran-Le | McGill B | Toronto K | 57 | -5 |
| Artem Borisov | Bristol B | Imperial B | 59 | -5 |
| Vincent Zhang | Penn A | George Mason A | 61 | 10 |
| Matthew Sumanen | Georgia Tech A | Georgia Tech C | 61 | 10 |
| Alan Li | Cornell-UG | Dartmouth | 64 | -5 |
| Omer Korkmaz | Johns Hopkins B | Maryland D | 65 | -5 |
| Kaushul Manikandan | Huntsville A | Auburn B | 66 | -5 |
| Ben Richards | Sheffield B | City St George's A | 66 | -5 |
| Oliver Rothnie | Durham B | Imperial C | 66 | -5 |
| Kyan Cheung | Cambridge C | Lancaster A | 66 | -5 |
| Hamish Campbell | Durham A | Oxford B | 66 | -5 |
| Brendan Bridle | Queen's A | McMaster C | 66 | -5 |
| Nathan Sheffield | MIT A | Amherst A | 66 | -5 |
| Matthew He | Texas A | Arizona State A | 66 | 10 |
| David Bass | Johns Hopkins A | Maryland A | 67 | -5 |
| Sidarth Erat | MIT B | BU | 71 | -5 |
| Graham Lucas | Bowdoin B | BC B | 71 | 10 |
| Raymond Jiang | Illinois C | Louisville A | 74 | -5 |
| Asha Basu | McGill A | Guelph A | 76 | -5 |
| Todd Maslyk | Michigan A | Purdue B | 76 | 10 |
| Justin Drees | Notre Dame D | Chicago A | 78 | 10 |
| Daniel Ju | Harvard | Brown A | 78 | 10 |
| Adil Soubki | Cambridge D | Southampton B | 80 | 10 |
| Ryan Lee | Brown C | Brandeis Clemenceau | 80 | 10 |
| Rohit Chintala | Maryland C | George Washington B | 82 | 10 |
| Akshansh Chauhan | UTD A | Iowa | 82 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin A | Auburn A | 82 | -5 |
| Ethen Sun | Toronto D | Ottawa | 82 | 10 |
| Lucas Guan | Brown B | Brandeis Lloyd George | 84 | 10 |
| Grant Koh | Michigan D | Kentucky | 85 | 10 |
| Owen Feng | Vanderbilt B | Georgia Tech B | 87 | 10 |
| Vedh Ramesh | Penn B | Georgetown A | 88 | -5 |
| Will McCurley | Auburn A | Bruin A | 88 | 10 |
| Charlie Lowman | Imperial A | Birmingham A | 88 | 10 |
| Christopher Dech | Brandeis Wilson | Brandeis Orlando | 88 | 10 |
| Zaid Asif | NYU B | Notre Dame E | 89 | 10 |
| Sawyer Smith | Mississippi State A | UAB A | 89 | 10 |
| Nathan Long | Imperial B | Bristol B | 89 | 10 |
| Phillip Jordan | Imperial C | Durham B | 89 | 10 |
| James Xiao | Toronto E | Western Ontario | 89 | -5 |
| Platon Gorokhov | Toronto F | Toronto G | 89 | 10 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri A | SIUE | 89 | 10 |
| Samarth Ram | Chicago B | Michigan C | 89 | 10 |
| Michael Wu | Southampton A | Sheffield C | 89 | 10 |
| Noah Jaye | McMaster B | Queen's B | 89 | 10 |
| Jason Panusopone | Toronto J | Toronto Metropolitan | 89 | 10 |
| Will Zhang | Tufts A | Tufts B | 89 | 10 |
| Matthew Kohn | Williams | Yale A | 89 | 10 |
| Aaron Velez | Yale B | BC A | 89 | 10 |
| Tyler Turnpaugh | Georgetown B | Maryland B | 90 | 10 |
| Stephen Walsh | Northwestern B | UCO | 90 | -5 |
| Justin Hawkins | Indiana A | UIC | 90 | 10 |
| Ved Muthusamy | Northwestern A | Alberta B | 90 | -5 |
| Dustin Sanders | Chicago D | Notre Dame A | 91 | 10 |
| Thomas Redpath | UMBC A | Johns Hopkins C | 94 | 10 |
| Nolan Travers | Tulsa | UTD B | 95 | 10 |
| Samir Sarma | Georgia Tech D | Vanderbilt A | 95 | -5 |
| Yusuf Baig | McMaster A | Toronto C | 96 | -5 |
| Jisoo Yoo | Texas B | McGill D | 99 | 10 |
| Sean Yang | Waterloo | Guelph B | 100 | 10 |
| Gavin Yang | WashU B | Truman State | 107 | -5 |
| Charlie Ruff | McGill C | Toronto I | 107 | -5 |
| Matthew Vidal | Northwestern C | Rose State | 107 | 10 |
| Paige Crawley | Oxford A | Manchester A | 112 | -5 |
| Alex Dzurick | William Woods | WashU D | 113 | -5 |
| Young Fenimore Lee | Ohio | Arizona State B | 117 | -5 |
| Eugene Kim | Purdue C | Notre Dame B | 123 | -5 |
| Rachel Bentham | Manchester B | LSE B | 125 | 10 |
| Ethan Burks | Huntsville B | Sewanee A | 126 | -5 |
| Elliot Earley | Sheffield A | Warwick A | 127 | 10 |
| Rajiv Pujara | Dartmouth | Cornell-UG | 129 | 10 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester A | Oxford A | 131 | 0 |
| Eva Mandelbaum | Guelph A | McGill A | 132 | 10 |
| Taaj Rai | George Washington A | Catholic University | 132 | 10 |
| Ian Parsons | Maryland D | Johns Hopkins B | 132 | 0 |
| Mattias Ehatamm | Maryland A | Johns Hopkins A | 132 | 10 |
| Vayun Krishna | Georgetown A | Penn B | 132 | 10 |
| Joe O'Connor | George Mason B | VCU A | 132 | 10 |
| Brody Sadler | UCO | Northwestern B | 132 | 10 |
| Tomas Ospina | Alabama A | Alabama B | 132 | 10 |
| Coy Mier | Auburn B | Huntsville A | 132 | 10 |
| Blake Enwiller | Vanderbilt A | Georgia Tech D | 132 | 10 |
| Andrei Hui | Cambridge A | Edinburgh B | 132 | 10 |
| Nicholas Kwan | Western Ontario | Toronto E | 132 | 0 |
| Stuart Chandler-Baas | Carleton | Toronto H | 132 | 10 |
| Thomas Thatcher | Truman State | WashU B | 132 | 0 |
| Sophie Lyman | WashU D | William Woods | 132 | 0 |
| Beckett Gilmore | Louisville A | Illinois C | 132 | 0 |
| Anurag Shah | Indiana B | Michigan B | 132 | 10 |
| Adrian Dooley | Notre Dame B | Purdue C | 132 | 10 |
| Eoin Neale | Lancaster A | Cambridge C | 132 | 10 |
| Zoë McGuire | Oxford B | Durham A | 132 | 0 |
| Lily Morris | Bristol A | Warwick B | 132 | 0 |
| William Gillard | Warwick B | Bristol A | 132 | 10 |
| Cranmer McGinn | McMaster C | Queen's A | 132 | 0 |
| Ben Wismath | Toronto B | Toronto A | 132 | 10 |
| Franklin Wu | Toronto C | McMaster A | 132 | 10 |
| Bailey Lacefield | Toronto I | McGill C | 132 | 0 |
| Sean Gao | Toronto K | McGill B | 132 | 0 |
| Jaehyun Park | BU | MIT B | 132 | 10 |
| Michael Zheng | Amherst A | MIT A | 132 | 10 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta B | Northwestern A | 132 | 0 |
| Alexander Mayans | Arizona State B | Ohio | 132 | 0 |