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 |
| 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 |
| Matthew Sumanen | Georgia Tech A | Georgia Tech C | 61 | 10 |
| Vincent Zhang | Penn A | George Mason A | 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 |
| 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 |
| Nathan Sheffield | MIT A | Amherst A | 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 |
| 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 |
| Ryan Lee | Brown C | Brandeis Clemenceau | 80 | 10 |
| Adil Soubki | Cambridge D | Southampton B | 80 | 10 |
| Akshansh Chauhan | UTD A | Iowa | 82 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin A | Auburn A | 82 | -5 |
| Rohit Chintala | Maryland C | George Washington B | 82 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Will McCurley | Auburn A | Bruin A | 88 | 10 |
| Vedh Ramesh | Penn B | Georgetown A | 88 | -5 |
| Charlie Lowman | Imperial A | Birmingham A | 88 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Matthew Kohn | Williams | Yale A | 89 | 10 |
| Aaron Velez | Yale B | BC A | 89 | 10 |
| Zaid Asif | NYU B | Notre Dame E | 89 | 10 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri A | SIUE | 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 |
| Michael Wu | Southampton A | Sheffield C | 89 | 10 |
| James Xiao | Toronto E | Western Ontario | 89 | -5 |
| Platon Gorokhov | Toronto F | Toronto G | 89 | 10 |
| Samarth Ram | Chicago B | Michigan C | 89 | 10 |
| Will Zhang | Tufts A | Tufts B | 89 | 10 |
| Justin Hawkins | Indiana A | UIC | 90 | 10 |
| Ved Muthusamy | Northwestern A | Alberta B | 90 | -5 |
| Stephen Walsh | Northwestern B | UCO | 90 | -5 |
| Tyler Turnpaugh | Georgetown B | Maryland B | 90 | 10 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Beckett Gilmore | Louisville A | Illinois C | 132 | 0 |
| Anurag Shah | Indiana B | Michigan B | 132 | 10 |
| Jaehyun Park | BU | MIT B | 132 | 10 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta B | Northwestern A | 132 | 0 |
| Brody Sadler | UCO | Northwestern B | 132 | 10 |
| Blake Enwiller | Vanderbilt A | Georgia Tech D | 132 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Andrei Hui | Cambridge A | Edinburgh B | 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 |
| Sophie Lyman | WashU D | William Woods | 132 | 0 |
| Adrian Dooley | Notre Dame B | Purdue C | 132 | 10 |
| Michael Zheng | Amherst A | MIT A | 132 | 10 |
| Alexander Mayans | Arizona State B | Ohio | 132 | 0 |
| Tomas Ospina | Alabama A | Alabama B | 132 | 10 |
| Coy Mier | Auburn B | Huntsville A | 132 | 10 |