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SMB’s Options Training Program Presents:. The Heart Friendly Butterfly. Disclaimer.
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SMB’s Options Training Program Presents: The Heart Friendly Butterfly
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PART 1 HEART FRIENDLY BUTTERFLY FUNDAMENTALS
The Heart Friendly Butterfly • Question: What’s so heart friendly about the heart friendly butterfly?
Answer: You rarely feel stressed out • Deltas are heavily under control throughout the trade. • The maximum permitted loss is very mild—10% of planned capital. • Performs well in most kinds of markets—channeling, reasonable uptrends, reasonable downtrends, reasonable whipsaws. • The trade design is simple and intuitive.
The Problem………………… • If the market moves too quickly to the upside the trade’s P and L can be down substantially at the adjustment point.
Heart Friendly Butterfly Trade Initiation • We enter the trade 36 days out from options expiration. • Good idea to wait until 10:30 Eastern Time to let the market settle down and clear out any reaction to news events and economic reports that were earlier reported. • Observe the At-The-Money call of the expiration that you are trading. • If it is greater than 30%, then do not enter the trade for that month. These are extreme market conditions not favorable to this trade.
If the ATM Call is less than 30% • Wait for the market to get within 5 points a 25 point strike on the $SPX (best liquidity) • Measure a 29 day one standard deviation move on the $SPX from that strike. • Round down to the nearest 25 point strike. • Then sell an iron butterfly with the short strikes at the money and the long strikes at the 25 point strike arrived at through the above standard deviation analysis. • Minimum Two Lots • No less than 50 point wings and no greater than 75 points.
Planned Capital • Planned Capital is a function of wing width. • If the implied volatilities call for the iron butterfly to have 50 point wings, then the planned capital is $7,500 per unit. • If the implied volatilities call for the iron butterfly to have 75 point wings, then the planned capital is $11,250 per unit.
Profit Target and Maximum Loss • The Profit target is set at 50% of the peak of profitability at seven days before expiration according to your analytical software. • So there is no fixed percentage target profit. It is a floating number based upon market conditions and the exact number of adjustments, realized gains and realized losses embedded in the trade at any one time. • The maximum loss on the other hand equals 10% of planned capital at all times, thus $750 per unit for 50 point wing trades and $1,125 per unit for 75 point wing trades.
Adjustment Points • There is one initial downside adjustment point which is simply the expiration day breakeven on the downside. • There are two initial upside adjustment points they are: 50% between the short strike and upside expiration day breakeven AND the upside expiration day breakeven itself. • In other words, the upside adjustment plan is more aggressive than the downside plan.
Adjustment Process • Initial Downside Adjustment: Buy a put side butterfly, the same number of lots as the original iron butterfly, transforming the position into an iron condor. • Initial Upside Adjustments: Buy a half-lot call side butterfly halfway between the short strikes of the original iron butterfly and the original expiration day breakeven. If the market trends upward further, buy a second half lot butterfly at the original short strikes of the original iron butterfly completing the transformation of the position into an iron condor.
Adjustment Butterflies • So the downside adjustment is a single full “condorization” of the iron butterfly, whereas the upside adjustment, culminating in a full condorization, happens in two stages. This is because of the negative delta nature of iron butterflies, at the money, initiated five weeks before expiration. The upside risk must be controlled more quickly than the downside risk. • Note that one of the long strikes of the adjusting butterflies always sits on top of the original iron butterfly short strikes and the short strikes of the adjusting butterflies sit on top of the original iron butterfly of the long strikes.
Further Trending Adjustment Should the market continue trending in the direction of the new short strike, implement a 25 point roll of the credit spread under attack to buy additional space for the market to trend before rest or reversing.
If the market trends even further….. • We roll the profitable short strike to the market but roll its associated long up 25 points less, creating a wider credit spread on the profitable side of the trade. • Simultaneously we roll the long of the attacked credit spread out 25 points further. • This creates an iron butterfly with 25 point wider wings than the original trade.
Final Trade Position Adjustment Plan • At this final do-or-die point in the trade, we simply revert to the original trade rules. • Apply a butterfly adjustment, condorizing the trade, at the downside breakeven point. • Phase into an upside condor in two adjustments as per the original trade procedures.
$4,441 profit showing two days before expiration which is…….
Coming Attractions • How to handle market whipsaws. • Examples of the HFB in extreme market moves. • Examples of the HFB in flat, channeling markets. • Scaling out of the trade and milking it for more profit.
