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Short Call Butterfly

bullish bullish

Short Call Butterfly is a range bound strategy that offers decent reward/risk along with low cost. In scenario where strike difference is not equal its is known as Modified Call Butterfly Spread

Legs:4Risk:Limited RiskProficiency :Intermediate

Example:

InstrumentQtyPrice
BUY NIFTY 30-Jun-26 22600 CE651507.7
SELL NIFTY 30-Jun-26 24100 CE130101.25
BUY NIFTY 30-Jun-26 25600 CE650.75

When To Execute?

When you are looking to execute a potentially high-yielding trade at a very low cost, where your maximum profit occurs if the stock is at the middle strike price at expiration;Ideal when one is anticipating very low volatility in the stock price

Trade

Buy 1 lot ITM Call, Sell 2 lots ATM Calls and Buy 1 lot OTM Call

Advantages

It helps to participate in high yielding trade with relatively low cost

Being completely hedge one can hold on to the stock till expiry

Promising Reward to risk provides good odds to wins as stock has ample of room to perform

Disadvantages

Time decay is generally harmful when stock is near first strike or third strike and beneficial if stock price is near middle strike

Maximum loss is capped

Strike selection is a key to garner maximum benefit

Short Call Butterfly

Maximum Profit

Maximum risk is the net debit of the bought and sold options. Maximum reward is the difference between adjacent strike prices less the net debit. (Strikes are equidistance from each other)

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Maximum Loss

It is Net debit Strategy. However Net cost to establish is very low