Options Playbook Radio 203: Short-Term UNH Butterfly

We are back in the saddle discussing options strategies. As we are a few days away from earnings, let's look at something that is not driven by earnings. While we're waiting for volatility to slow down, let's look at a short-term butterfly in UNH. You can find more in The Options Playbook, which is always available on OptionsPlaybook.com, or on the Amazon Kindle edition. Specifically: UNH announces earnings on 4/16 Doing a very short-term butterfly to not contain earnings What are we hoping to happen? What is the implied volatility? Selecting strikes Setting up the trade What is the maximum risk? Reward? What about time decay? Do you have a question that you want answered on a future episode? Send them to Brian at [email protected], or to the Options Insider at [email protected].