hard · Quantitative Finance derivatives

In the Black-Scholes PDE, the term -rV acts as a 'decay' term.

If an option is very deep in-the-money, how does this affect Theta (Θ)?

  1. Theta is driven primarily by the interest cost of the strike price rather than Gamma-related diffusion.
  2. Theta becomes positive because the option now behaves essentially like an outright stock position.
  3. Theta explodes toward infinity because the option is now certain to be exercised at final maturity.
  4. Theta and Gamma both remain pinned at their maximum levels no matter how deep the option is in-the-money.

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