FoundationMultiple choice
Why can’t you hedge an option book’s gamma by trading the underlying stock?
- ABecause stock trades in whole shares and gamma is fractional
- BStock’s delta is always one, so its gamma is zero
- CBecause exchanges forbid hedging options with the underlying
- DBecause stock has negative gamma that would double the exposure
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