NO.PZ2015122802000023
问题如下:
The current price of a stock is $25 per share. You have $10,000 to invest. You borrow an additional $10,000 from your broker and invest $20,000 in the stock. If the maintenance margin is 30 percent, at what price will a margin call first occur?
选项:
A.$9.62.
B.$17.86.
C.$19.71.
解释:
B is correct.
A margin call will first occur at a price of $17.86. Because you have contributed half and borrowed the remaining half, your initial equity is 50 percent of the initial stock price, or $12.50 = 0.50 × $25. If P is the subsequent price, your equity would change by an amount equal to the change in price. So, your equity at price P would be 12.50 + (P – 25). A margin call will occur when the percentage margin drops to 30 percent. So, the price at which a margin call will occur is the solution to the following equation.
The solution is P = $17.86.
考点:Leveraged Position
这道题目,解题方法有两种:
方法一:期初股价25元,我们借钱买股票,所以自有资金是12.5,自有资金占股价比例12.5/25=50%。当股价从25元跌到P,那么自有资金就跟着减少,当自有资金比例减少到30%时:[12.5-(25-P)]/P=30%,低于这个P我们就要接到电话了。计算得到P=17.86
方法二:直接根据公式,PL=P0*(1-IM)/(1-MM)=25*(1-50%)/(1-30%)=17.86
老师这道题初始保证金是50%,即自有资金10000元为保证金;题目中降到30%时即到维持保证金,即自有金额降到6000元,那么自有资金减少了4000元时候,需要受到margincall。那为什么思路不能是4000除以(20000/25)=5元时,即每股亏损5块钱时受到margin call这个思路来算呢?