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A strategy used by dealers in traded options. It involves simultaneously purchasing and selling call or put options at different exercise prices. A butterfly is most profitable when the price of the underlying security fluctuates within narrow limits but the losses from the strategy are limited. Compare straddle.
Subjects: Financial Institutions and Services.
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