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 |
| Anirudh Terdal | LSE B | Manchester B | 57 | -5 |
| Denali Tran-Le | McGill B | Toronto K | 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 |
| 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 |
| Matthew He | Texas A | Arizona State A | 66 | 10 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Ethen Sun | Toronto D | Ottawa | 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 |
| 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 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri A | SIUE | 89 | 10 |
| Michael Wu | Southampton A | Sheffield C | 89 | 10 |
| Noah Jaye | McMaster B | Queen's B | 89 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Tyler Turnpaugh | Georgetown B | Maryland B | 90 | 10 |
| Ved Muthusamy | Northwestern A | Alberta B | 90 | -5 |
| Stephen Walsh | Northwestern B | UCO | 90 | -5 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Sophie Lyman | WashU D | William Woods | 132 | 0 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Blake Enwiller | Vanderbilt A | Georgia Tech D | 132 | 10 |
| Andrei Hui | Cambridge A | Edinburgh B | 132 | 10 |
| Eva Mandelbaum | Guelph A | McGill A | 132 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Jaehyun Park | BU | MIT B | 132 | 10 |
| Michael Zheng | Amherst A | MIT A | 132 | 10 |