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butterfly spread


Complex option strategy that involves selling two calls or puts and buying two calls or puts on the same or different markets, whereby one of the options has a higher exercise price and the other has a lower exercise price than the other two options. An investor in a butterfly spread will profit if the underlying security makes no dramatic movemets because the premium income will be collected when the options are sold (Barron, p. 51).