A European Put Option on a non-dividend paying stock with strike price 80 is currently priced at 8 and a put option on the same stock with strike price 90 is priced at 9. Is there an arbitrage opportunity existing in these two Options?
I know we have to used the fact that Put Options values are convex with respect to their Strike Prices and could use the equation P(λK)<λP(K)? But, in the solution book that I have, they take λ to be 8/9 and I don't know why this is.
Answer
Let K1=0, K2=80, and K3=90. Then K2=1/9K1+8/9K3.
Moreover, Put(K2)=Put(1/9K1+8/9K3)<1/9Put(K1)+8/9Put(K3)=8/9Put(K3).
Taking K=K3 and λ=8/9, we have that Put(λK)<λPut(K).
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