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A short iron butterfly option strategy will attain maximum profit when the price of the underlying asset at expiration is equal to the strike price at which the call and put options are sold. The trader will then receive the net credit of entering the trade when the options all expire worthless.
Iron butterfly - sell two overlapping credit vertical spreads but one of the verticals is on the call side and one is on the put side. The short strikes are the same. In terms of CVAR (conditional value at risk), Butterfly is a useful strategy for 0DTEs (same day expiration contracts) because CVAR is low compared to many other strategies.
The iron butterfly is a special case of an iron condor (see above) where the strike price for the bull put credit spread and the bear call credit spread are the same. Ideally, the margin for the iron butterfly is the maximum of the bull put and bear call spreads, but some brokers require a cumulative margin for the bull put and the bear call.
A condor is a limited-risk, non-directional options trading strategy consisting of four options at four different strike prices. [1] [2] The buyer of a condor earns a profit if the underlying is between or near the inner two strikes at expiry, but has a limited loss if the underlying is near or outside the outer two strikes at expiry. [2]
In finance, a butterfly (or simply fly) is a limited risk, non-directional options strategy that is designed to have a high probability of earning a limited profit when the future volatility of the underlying asset is expected to be lower (when long the butterfly) or less lower (when short the butterfly) than that asset's current implied ...
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Simple payoff diagrams of the four types of ladder. In finance, a ladder, also known as a Christmas tree, is a combination of three options of the same type (all calls or all puts) at three different strike prices. [1]
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