October 2nd, 2004, 2:15 pm
Can it have a value different from 0 ?I suppose that if the forward price of the underlying is negative, then yes (for example, a stock at 1$, with a huge repo and a huge dividend : it surely never happened but it is possible or negative forward rates ; did it happen in the past by the way ?). But this assumes that I delta-hedge. If I sell a put with strike 0, then I won't hedge it since it is never going to be in the money. So its value is 0. But if I hedge it with the underlying, and that this underlying has a negative forward price, the put should have a value different from 0. Am I right ? And if there any risk selling this put for virtually nothing if I don't hedge it (of course, I would not do it in practice, just in case...) ?Thanks