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Iron Butterfly

neutral Capped loss

Advanced: a higher-credit, tighter cousin of the iron condor.

When to use it

Sell an ATM call and put, buy protective wings. Collects a large credit but needs the stock to pin near the strike. Defined risk.

Max profit

The net credit, if price pins the body at expiry.

Max loss

Wing width minus the credit.

Payoff at expiry
illustrative shape — not to scale
profit zone loss zone X axis = stock price at expiry →
How it's built

Strikes shown low→high. Sell = collect premium · Buy = pay premium for protection or upside.

Hermes-evaluated setups

High-conviction per-ticker applications — setups with a confidence-adjusted win rate ≥ 80% over ≥20 backtested trades (95% lower bound — honest for the sample size, never a raw 100%). Avg P/L is the mean profit/loss per one-contract position.

Ticker Win Rate Avg P/L Sharpe Trades DTE
TLT 94% +$136 4.7 57 21
BKNG 94% +$321 5.4 57 21
COIN 94% +$302 6.2 57 21
FFIV 94% +$237 7.9 57 21
CAT 94% +$488 7.4 57 21
PYPL 94% +$200 7.2 57 21
XYZ 94% +$243 7.7 57 21
ABBV 94% +$289 6.5 57 21
MRK 94% +$198 4.9 57 21
XLV 94% +$152 5.5 57 21
BABA 94% +$222 10.0 57 21
SNOW 94% +$447 8.6 57 21
NET 94% +$224 8.2 57 21
ABNB 94% +$258 10.3 57 21
ADP 94% +$455 5.1 57 21
PDD 94% +$243 10.1 57 21
SE 94% +$233 6.4 57 21
PNC 94% +$236 10.1 57 21
REGN 94% +$97 5.1 57 21
CI 94% +$235 11.7 57 21
MDT 94% +$185 4.7 57 21
SYK 94% +$370 12.0 57 21
NKE 94% +$247 6.2 57 21
MAR 94% +$238 12.1 57 21
DLTR 94% +$265 7.4 57 21
LMT 94% +$202 8.9 57 21
RTX 94% +$206 5.3 57 21
NOC 94% +$166 8.6 57 21
GD 94% +$234 9.6 57 21
ETN 94% +$342 7.4 57 21
PH 94% +$164 7.3 57 21
LNG 94% +$221 8.8 57 21
LIN 94% +$222 11.2 57 21
CHTR 94% +$155 6.8 57 21
AMT 94% +$247 12.0 57 21
SPG 94% +$280 5.1 57 21
XLB 94% +$73 4.4 57 21
IBB 94% +$221 6.0 57 21
KWEB 94% +$115 3.9 57 21
UVXY 94% +$97 3.4 57 21
RBRK 93% +$211 5.2 48 10
DIS 91% +$268 8.8 41 30
RBLX 91% +$215 8.2 41 30
BX 91% +$423 5.7 41 30
OXY 91% +$169 5.6 41 30
JPM 91% +$347 7.3 40 30
TMO 91% +$266 10.1 40 30
PG 91% +$222 6.0 40 30
IWM 91% +$239 14.1 40 30
AMAT 91% +$201 11.3 40 30

Backtested results are not a guarantee of future performance.