AdvancedMultiple choice
You are long a call on a basket of two stocks. What is your correlation exposure?
- ALong correlation
- BShort correlation, because diversification helps the holder
- CNone, since a basket option depends only on the two volatilities
- DIt depends on whether the basket weights are equal
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