1) Use the Black-Scholes formula to calculate the value of a European call option on silver futures. The option matures in six months.
The current nine-month futures price is $10 per oz, the strike price of the option is $8, the risk-free interest rate is 12% per annum and the volatility of the futures price is 18% per annum. Use the NORM.S.DIST(x) function in Excel.
2) What is the delta of the call option on the futures contract from Problem #1?
3) Use the information from Problem #1. What is the price of a similar call option that expires immediately? That is, K=8 and T are approximately 0.