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Put Broken Wing Butterfly Calculator

Calculate Put Broken Wing Butterfly profit, loss and breakevens using your own entry prices.

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Illustrative starting values · USD

Use one stock or ETF and the same expiration for every option leg. Prices are per share.

Stock quantities are shares. Option quantities are contracts. Enter the total fees for the entire position once.

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How to use the Put Broken Wing Butterfly calculator

Buy one lower-strike put, sell two middle-strike puts and buy one higher-strike put. Use one expiration, with the lower wing wider than the upper wing.

Understanding the payoff

Results add the payoff of each displayed leg, including quantities, entry prices and fees.

These formulas describe the standard strategy before fees. The results above include the total fees entered and are calculated from your actual legs.

Worked example

With XYZ at $100, buy the $90 put for $2, sell two $100 puts for $5 each and buy the $105 put for $7. This collects $100. At $100, the $105 put pays $500 and the remaining puts expire worthless, giving a $600 profit. At $90, the long $105 put pays $1,500 while the two short puts cost $2,000, leaving a $400 net loss after the credit.

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Assumptions and limits

This is an expiration payoff estimate, not a live option quote or a prediction. It assumes all option legs expire together on one stock or ETF, the stock price cannot be negative, and options settle at intrinsic value. The default multiplier is 100 shares per contract; adjust it for the contract being modeled. Early assignment, exercise decisions, dividends, interest, taxes, and slippage can change realized results. Cash requirements and broker margin are separate from maximum loss. Different expirations, futures options, and adjusted contracts with non-cash deliverables are not supported.

Method: add each leg’s intrinsic value at expiration, subtract its entry cost with the correct buy/sell sign, and subtract total fees. See Cboe’s worked spread example on Fidelity for a reference calculation.