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7.3  Technical Topic:  Derivation of Delta

T

he derivative of the option price with respect to the stock price is called the delta of the option.  It is given by:

 

since

 

which implies

 

The term in the brackets in the first equation above is:

 

and

 

 

 

 

This implies that

 

 

 

Therefore,

so that