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Butterfly Spread : The Gamma Г
Issued on August 31 2010 par Strategies-options.com

P & L can exhibit positive and negative acceleration for a butterfly spread. That's gamma Г !
I - Butterfly spread's Gamma Г

Easy to compute, the butterfly spread's gamma is an addition of the long gammas minus the short gammas.



II - Graphs

1 year Butterfly's 90/100/110 gamma :
Gamma-Long-Butterfly-80-100-120-3D


It's easy to see how the nearest strike dominates the gamma.




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