RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:why don't warrants gain same as stock price?? The warrant give you the right to buy the stock at 5.60$ at the date it expired. You will use the right only if the stock price is above the strike price. Otherwise, you can just buy the stock on the market at a cheaper price. If the stock trade above the strike price at the end of the life of the warrant, It's value is the difference between the stock price and the strike price. Exemple: if the stock price is 10$ you will use the right given by your warrant to buy the stock cheaper. You still have to spend the money to bue the stock if you want to hold the stock. So you will spend 5.60$ yo buy somthing worth 10$. Your gain is than 4.40$ (10-5.60). it is also the fair value of the warrant. But that is your gain at the end of the life of the warrant. Today, even if the price is above the strike price, there'is still a risk that on the last day, the stok fall below the strike price making the value of the warrant zero. That risk must be rewarded with a discont on the value of the warrant. The bigger the probability that at the end the value goes ender the strike price, the bigger the discount.
The more in the money you get, the more the price of the warrant start traidaing like the stock. For exemple, lets say the stock is 500$. The probability that the stock goes back to less than 5.60$ is quite low. In this case that value of the warrant will be 500$ - 5.60$ = 494.40$. And if the second day, the price goes to 510$ then we would expect the warrant to follow and take a 10$ gain.
On the other hand, If the stock was 0.40$. The probability that the stock would go back to above 5.60$ would be very very low. In that case, even if the stock whent up to 1$, the probability of getting above the strike price would still be low. So in that case we can expect the warrant not to move as much as the stock.
Now If you paid 2.74$ when the stock was 7.84$. You unfortunatly overpaid for the warrant at that time. You should have paid less than 7.84$ - 5.60$ = 2.24$ at that time. The fact that the warrant was traiding above his faire value is probably due to a lack of liquidity on the warrant.