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 |
| Davin Sivertson | Alabama B | Alabama A | 57 | -5 |
| Anirudh Terdal | LSE B | Manchester B | 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 |
| Brendan Bridle | Queen's A | McMaster C | 66 | -5 |
| Nathan Sheffield | MIT A | Amherst A | 66 | -5 |
| Ben Richards | Sheffield B | City St George's A | 66 | -5 |
| Oliver Rothnie | Durham B | Imperial C | 66 | -5 |
| Matthew He | Texas A | Arizona State A | 66 | 10 |
| Kaushul Manikandan | Huntsville A | Auburn B | 66 | -5 |
| Kyan Cheung | Cambridge C | Lancaster A | 66 | -5 |
| Hamish Campbell | Durham A | Oxford 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 |
| 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 |
| Rohit Chintala | Maryland C | George Washington B | 82 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin A | Auburn A | 82 | -5 |
| Ethen Sun | Toronto D | Ottawa | 82 | 10 |
| Akshansh Chauhan | UTD A | Iowa | 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 |
| Christopher Dech | Brandeis Wilson | Brandeis Orlando | 88 | 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 |
| Noah Jaye | McMaster B | Queen's B | 89 | 10 |
| Jason Panusopone | Toronto J | Toronto Metropolitan | 89 | 10 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri A | SIUE | 89 | 10 |
| Samarth Ram | Chicago B | Michigan C | 89 | 10 |
| Will Zhang | Tufts A | Tufts 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 |
| James Xiao | Toronto E | Western Ontario | 89 | -5 |
| Platon Gorokhov | Toronto F | Toronto G | 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 |
| Michael Wu | Southampton A | Sheffield C | 89 | 10 |
| Ved Muthusamy | Northwestern A | Alberta B | 90 | -5 |
| Stephen Walsh | Northwestern B | UCO | 90 | -5 |
| Tyler Turnpaugh | Georgetown B | Maryland B | 90 | 10 |
| Justin Hawkins | Indiana A | UIC | 90 | 10 |
| Dustin Sanders | Chicago D | Notre Dame A | 91 | 10 |
| Thomas Redpath | UMBC A | Johns Hopkins C | 94 | 10 |
| Samir Sarma | Georgia Tech D | Vanderbilt A | 95 | -5 |
| Nolan Travers | Tulsa | UTD B | 95 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Taaj Rai | George Washington A | Catholic University | 132 | 10 |
| Ian Parsons | Maryland D | Johns Hopkins B | 132 | 0 |
| Joe O'Connor | George Mason B | VCU A | 132 | 10 |
| Thomas Thatcher | Truman State | WashU B | 132 | 0 |
| Adrian Dooley | Notre Dame B | Purdue C | 132 | 10 |
| Michael Zheng | Amherst A | MIT 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 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta B | Northwestern A | 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 |
| Eva Mandelbaum | Guelph A | McGill A | 132 | 10 |
| Mattias Ehatamm | Maryland A | Johns Hopkins A | 132 | 10 |
| Vayun Krishna | Georgetown A | Penn B | 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 |
| Jaehyun Park | BU | MIT 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 |