Yesterday I bought some AAPL calls to catch the squeeze expansion…I bought the 95, then an equal number of 98 and 102.
So today when the AAPL wasn’t moving higher I converted the position into a broken wing butterfly by selling one AAPL Mar 18 101 for $1.90 for every long option I had.
If all my long options’ strikes would have been below the 101 strike, this position would have been a regular vertical debit spread…however, since I have a higher strike options at 102, the position becomes a butterfly. What makes it a broken wing is that I have 2 options below the 101 strike for each option that I have above the 101 strike.
What that does to the position is that it caps the max profit but it also reduces my max loss to the cost of the position, and it doesn’t have any upside risk.
This position makes money as long as AAPL finishes above 98.44.