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Butterfly Spread : The Vega υ
Issued on September 01 2010 par Strategies Options

There are different ways of how would a butterfly react to some volatility variations.
It's usual to read that a butterfly spread is a vega neutral strategy. It's far from reality.



I - Butterfly's Vega υ

Butterfly's Vega υ is built adding the long vegas minus the short vegas.



II - Graphs

Butterfly 90/100/110, 1year, implied volatility=30% :
Vega-Long-Butterfly-80-100-120-3D




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