Put-call parity - Financial definition
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Concise definition of the term put-call parity
Expression referring to the relationship between the price of calls, puts and the underlying. Buying a call, selling the underlying asset and investing the present value of the strike should be equal to the value of a put. It is, therefore, possible to use this relationship to calculate put values.