Consider a six month American put option on index futures where the current futures price is 450, the exercise price is 450, the risk-free rate of interest is 7 percent per annum, the continuous dividend yield of the index is 3 percent, and the volatility of the index is 30 percent per annum. The futures contract underlying the option matures in seven months. Using a three-step binomial tree, calculate
- the price of the American put option now
- the delta of the option with respect to the futures price
- the delta of the option with respect to the index level, and
- the price of the corresponding European put option on index futures
- Apply the control variate technique to improve your estimate of the American option price and of the delta of the option with respect to the futures price