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by hervature 1965 days ago
No, they are only the same price under very strict assumptions. The put-call parity says that buying a call and selling a put creates the same payoff structure as being long the stock itself. Depending on the strike, the put or the call could be ~100% of the value of the position. Only when you get near the price of the underlying do the put and call equal each other.