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Black-Scholes Option Pricing Model

"A pricing model devised by Fischer Black and Myron Scholes in 1973. Its key element is the assumption that option prices have maximum and minimum values. The maximum value a call option can ever reach is the value of the share itself, because no one would ever pay more than the share price to acquire a right to buy the share. The minimum will be the difference between the share price and the option's exercise price. The model puts this assumption into a formula and adjusts it to account for: interest rates
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