Synthetic Securities

A different way to look at arbitrage relationships is to recognize that they define securities. That is, even if a put option were not available in the financial markets, it would be easy for you to manufacture one (assuming minimal transaction costs, of course). For example, return to the put-call parity relationship. It states that [...]

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