All week, we've been unpacking options strategies with cool names. Next up, the iron butterfly is a flexible options strategy that can be placed using call or put options, but each trade's risk and ...

What Is a Butterfly Spread? When markets are volatile, experienced investors may seek to profit by adopting a complex option strategy like butterfly spreads. By using these strategies, investors can ...

Hey everyone – Scott Bauer from Prosper Trading Academy here. In exploring advanced options strategies, it’s crucial to understand how variations can be applied to tailor risk and reward. Today, I’m ...

Options trading provides a host of opportunities to investors. Furthermore, Options strategies involve executing more than one option position simultaneously to minimize the risk and maximize returns.

A monarch flits through the air, touches down on a hot pink cosmos flower and then gets taken by a breeze. It fights its way back and stays a moment before it notices the purple butterfly bush. A ...

This week, we discuss the butterfly strategy. In contrast to straddle and strangle, a butterfly is a low volatility strategy. A butterfly should be set up when you expect the underlying to move ...

Gordon Scott has been an active investor and technical analyst or 20+ years. He is a Chartered Market Technician (CMT). A positive butterfly is a non-parallel yield curve shift that occurs when short- ...

An important characteristic of a butterfly is that the three strikes used to set up the strategy must be equidistant from each other. But what if you create a position such that the distance between ...