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How does the market maker or algo set the bid/ask price for a certain option? Is it a black box? Or Black-Scholes box? Or more to it that that?
For example, today BRK-B 12/26 call with $300 strike is bid $178.30 ask $182.50.
How are those bid/ask prices arrived at?

Mark

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