Guaranteed terminal stock floor in the Black-Scholes model

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The claim for combines a guaranteed cash floor with a European call option, equivalently a stock with a put. In the Black-Scholes model, for , its price is , where and . Under the risk-neutral lognormal law, the truncated stock moment is and the probability of ending below the floor is , proving the price. Its option delta is , since cancels the derivative terms. The replicating strategy holds that many stock units and bank-account units.

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