Volatile increased by each passing day leading to alternate bouts of buying and selling in the market. The Nifty50 index on closing basis lost 2.8 percent to end the week at 10,495. It made a swing ...

Entomologists tell us that a group of butterflies can, at the choice of the writer, be termed a lek, a rabble, or a swarm. I was first struck today by the bearish Fibonacci based pattern initially ...

A butterfly strategy has two unique characteristics. One, the three strikes (legs) are equidistant from each other. And two, the strategy involves going long on the outer strikes and short on the ...

After many weeks of strong run up, Indian equity market saw some amount of nervousness in this week after 8 consecutive weeks of maintaining positive momentum in the market. Nifty gyrated in range of ...

What Is a Butterfly Spread? When markets are volatile, experienced investors may seek to profit by adopting a complex option strategy like butterfly spreads. By using these strategies, investors can ...

Each weekend I cover what I found interesting in the equity derivatives and volatility space the previous week for EQDerviatives. One of the trades I wrote up this past weekend involved putting on a ...

Previously in this column, we discussed the butterfly strategy and its modification- butterfly with broken wings. This week, we revisit two important characteristics of a butterfly- limited risk and ...