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 |
| Denali Tran-Le | McGill B | Toronto K | 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 |
| Davin Sivertson | Alabama B | Alabama A | 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 |
| Nathan Sheffield | MIT A | Amherst A | 66 | -5 |
| Brendan Bridle | Queen's A | McMaster C | 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 |
| Matthew He | Texas A | Arizona State A | 66 | 10 |
| Kaushul Manikandan | Huntsville A | Auburn B | 66 | -5 |
| 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 |
| Todd Maslyk | Michigan A | Purdue B | 76 | 10 |
| Asha Basu | McGill A | Guelph A | 76 | -5 |
| Daniel Ju | Harvard | Brown A | 78 | 10 |
| Justin Drees | Notre Dame D | Chicago A | 78 | 10 |
| Ryan Lee | Brown C | Brandeis Clemenceau | 80 | 10 |
| Adil Soubki | Cambridge D | Southampton B | 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 |
| Christopher Dech | Brandeis Wilson | Brandeis Orlando | 88 | 10 |
| Charlie Lowman | Imperial A | Birmingham A | 88 | 10 |
| Vedh Ramesh | Penn B | Georgetown A | 88 | -5 |
| Will McCurley | Auburn A | Bruin A | 88 | 10 |
| James Xiao | Toronto E | Western Ontario | 89 | -5 |
| Platon Gorokhov | Toronto F | Toronto G | 89 | 10 |
| Jason Panusopone | Toronto J | Toronto Metropolitan | 89 | 10 |
| Samarth Ram | Chicago B | Michigan C | 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 |
| Michael Wu | Southampton A | Sheffield C | 89 | 10 |
| Noah Jaye | McMaster B | Queen's B | 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 |
| Ved Muthusamy | Northwestern A | Alberta B | 90 | -5 |
| Justin Hawkins | Indiana A | UIC | 90 | 10 |
| Tyler Turnpaugh | Georgetown B | Maryland B | 90 | 10 |
| Stephen Walsh | Northwestern B | UCO | 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 |
| Nicholas Kwan | Western Ontario | Toronto E | 132 | 0 |
| Stuart Chandler-Baas | Carleton | Toronto H | 132 | 10 |
| Bailey Lacefield | Toronto I | McGill C | 132 | 0 |
| Sean Gao | Toronto K | McGill B | 132 | 0 |
| Adrian Dooley | Notre Dame B | Purdue C | 132 | 10 |
| Jaehyun Park | BU | MIT B | 132 | 10 |
| Michael Zheng | Amherst A | MIT A | 132 | 10 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta B | Northwestern 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 |
| Sophie Lyman | WashU D | William Woods | 132 | 0 |
| Beckett Gilmore | Louisville A | Illinois C | 132 | 0 |
| Anurag Shah | Indiana B | Michigan B | 132 | 10 |
| Andrei Hui | Cambridge A | Edinburgh B | 132 | 10 |
| Eoin Neale | Lancaster A | Cambridge C | 132 | 10 |
| Zoë McGuire | Oxford B | Durham A | 132 | 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 |
| Thomas Thatcher | Truman State | WashU B | 132 | 0 |
| Alexander Mayans | Arizona State B | Ohio | 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 |