So you have a long position in the stock.. you can very easily sell the synthetic equvalent in options and lock in your gain into a conversion... is there a way to close out a butterfly respectively? if i close a buttefly in the same day i open it.. i will automatically get pattern day trade trigger.. just curious here.. is there no offsetting neutralizing trade?
opening and closing a butterfly in one day. (PDT)
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You don't have to close it. It's safe to hold it through expiration unless the stock is near one of the legs thus you could be exposed to pin risk.
Another way to understand the resulting position (long call butterfly against short put butterfly) is to think about it as two box spreads. You can close out any of the box spread if one of them is subject to pin risk and let the other expire. Or you can decompose the trade to 4 synthetics and close one synthetic against your stock to avoid pin risk. A lot of options
Yeah, the combined short put and long call fly results in a long box at x-y and a short box at y-z. In any event, the rates-risk is on the spread differential and you have opposing rate spreads. Risk is nil outside pinning as quatron stated. If you're going to keep these on you need to learn a bit about dissection.
What is PDT? Is that Pacific Daylight Time?
Oh I see .... I had to Google it. And the reason I never heard of it is because it only affects accounts with a balance of less than $25,000. I didn't realize that some ET members had such low account balances.
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