Basket option

A basket option is a financial derivative, more specifically an exotic option, whose underlying is a (weighted) sum or average of different assets that have been grouped together in a basket. For example an index options, where a number of stocks have been grouped together in an index and the option is based on the price of the index.

Terms	Credit spread Debit spread Exercise Expiration Moneyness Open interest Pin risk Risk-free interest rate Strike price the Greeks Volatility

Vanilla options	Bond option Call Employee stock option Fixed income FX Option styles Put Warrants

Exotic options	Asian Barrier Binary Cliquet Commodore Compound Forward start Interest rate Lookback Mountain range Rainbow Swaption

Combinations	Collar Fence Iron butterfly Iron condor Straddle Strangle Covered call Married put Risk reversal

Spreads	Back Bear Box Bull Butterfly Calendar Diagonal Intermarket Ratio Vertical

Valuation	Binomial Black Black–Scholes model Finite difference Garman-Kohlhagen Margrabe's formula Put–call parity Simulation Trinomial Vanna–Volga pricing

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Basket option

See also