The markets are quiet with Christmas fast approaching on Saturday. Even so, ES rallied enough to convert our long calls into a riskless butterfly position. OK OK I know it’s not REALLY riskless. We could take the +$710 profit now and be done with it, but it’s all house money.
A gift from the Market!
I doubt it.
You’re just playing with house money. This accomplishes the goal of reducing our exposure as our original capital won’t decrease and we still have a good opportunity to have a nice profit on this trade. We can leave it until expiration or if it’s in the butterfly profit zone at a later date, profits should be higher than what we have now.
A Butterfly Spread is really two opposing vertical spreads (one bullish and one bearish). So as ES moves, we can also play these two embedded spreads back and forth. We’ll discuss this as ES moves.
GOOG and ZB moved in our predicted direction but not enough to do any position adjusting at this point.
These are PAPER TRADES ONLY! DO NOT USE LIVE CAPITAL FOR THESE TRADES! This is for instructional purposes ONLY! You’ve been warned!
Download PowerPoint slides of the entire trade history, charts and trading rationale
ES is morphed into a Riskless Butterfly Position
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