Put-Call Parity Calculator

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I've been reading "Numerical Methods in Finance and Economics, A MATLAB Based Introduction 2nd Edition". They obviously go into put-call parity early on. It's an extremely fascinating concept that given the risk free interest rate (r), the distance until expiration (t), the initial stock price (s), and the strike price (k), that you can then solve for the price of the call (c) given you have the price of the put (p) or vice versa.

No arbitrage financial pricing is extremely interesting (and practical). Here's a MATLAB script I wrote that you can use to look for "arbitrage" opportunity in the put-call parity sense. It'll ask you for several inputs (r,t,s,k,c,p) and tell you what the "call side value" (c + k*e(-r*t)) is and what the "put side value" (p + s) is. You can then compare.

(Example with current SPY options; first part is entry, second is output:)

 % arbitrage; put-call parity checker  
   
 %risk free interest rate  
 r = input('What is the risk free rate? ');  
   
 %time period  
 t = input('How long until expiration? ');  
   
 %stock price, initially  
 s = input('What is the initial stock price? ');  
   
 %strike price  
 k = input('What is the strike price? ');  
   
 %grab call price  
 c = input('What is the call price? ');  
   
 %grab put price  
 p = input('What is the put price? ');  
   
 fprintf('Risk free rate: %d \n', r);  
 fprintf('Time period: %d \n', t);  
 fprintf('Initial stock value: %d \n', s);  
 fprintf('Strike price: %d \n', k);  
 fprintf('Call price: %d \n', c);  
 fprintf('Put price: %d \n', p);  
   
 call_side_value = c + k*exp(-r*t)  
 put_side_value = p + s  

(Edit: fixed an error in call_side_value calculation. Should be good to go.)

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