Question: 1 . Current Stock price S ( 0 ) is $ 6 0 ; risk - free rate is 3 % ( simple rate )

1. Current Stock price S(0) is $60; risk-free rate is 3%(simple rate). There are two possible outcome in one year, stock price might go up 40%(to $84) or go down 40%(to $36). Consider both a call and a put with the same strike price of $60 and one year to maturity.
a. You estimate that the probability of stock price to go up is 90% and probability to go down is about 10%. Compute the price of call and put and also expected returns on the stock, call, put and a straddle (combination of a call and put with same strike of $60) using the binomial tree model. (6)

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