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 |
| Tony Chen | Toronto A | Toronto B | 31 | -5 |
| Ella Warde | Warwick A | Sheffield A | 31 | -5 |
| Arjun Kala | Illinois A | Louisville B | 45 | -5 |
| Denali Tran-Le | McGill B | Toronto K | 57 | -5 |
| Anirudh Terdal | LSE B | Manchester B | 57 | -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 |
| 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 |
| Brendan Bridle | Queen's A | McMaster C | 66 | -5 |
| Kyan Cheung | Cambridge C | Lancaster A | 66 | -5 |
| Hamish Campbell | Durham A | Oxford B | 66 | -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 |
| 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 |
| Ethen Sun | Toronto D | Ottawa | 82 | 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 |
| 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 |
| Will McCurley | Auburn A | Bruin A | 88 | 10 |
| Charlie Lowman | Imperial A | Birmingham A | 88 | 10 |
| Vedh Ramesh | Penn B | Georgetown A | 88 | -5 |
| Christopher Dech | Brandeis Wilson | Brandeis Orlando | 88 | 10 |
| Noah Jaye | McMaster B | Queen's B | 89 | 10 |
| Jason Panusopone | Toronto J | Toronto Metropolitan | 89 | 10 |
| Samarth Ram | Chicago B | Michigan C | 89 | 10 |
| Michael Wu | Southampton A | Sheffield C | 89 | 10 |
| James Xiao | Toronto E | Western Ontario | 89 | -5 |
| Platon Gorokhov | Toronto F | Toronto G | 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 |
| Zaid Asif | NYU B | Notre Dame E | 89 | 10 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri A | SIUE | 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 |
| Justin Hawkins | Indiana A | UIC | 90 | 10 |
| Stephen Walsh | Northwestern B | UCO | 90 | -5 |
| Tyler Turnpaugh | Georgetown B | Maryland B | 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 |
| Charlie Ruff | McGill C | Toronto I | 107 | -5 |
| Gavin Yang | WashU B | Truman State | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Nicholas Kwan | Western Ontario | Toronto E | 132 | 0 |
| Stuart Chandler-Baas | Carleton | Toronto H | 132 | 10 |
| Taaj Rai | George Washington A | Catholic University | 132 | 10 |
| Ian Parsons | Maryland D | Johns Hopkins B | 132 | 0 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Thomas Thatcher | Truman State | WashU 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 |