™A call's estimated delta may rise as the underlying rises; gamma measures that local change in delta, holding the model's other inputs constant.
Options
Gamma
An estimate of how an option’s delta may change when the underlying price changes.
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Gamma changes with price, time and volatility. A local delta-change estimate cannot be extrapolated unchanged across a large move.
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