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Strategy Guide

Track Your Iron Butterfly with OptionsEdge

Stop guessing whether your iron butterfly is actually profitable. OptionsEdge auto-groups your fills, tracks true cost basis across rolls, and shows strategy-level P&L — so you know exactly where your edge is.

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The tracking problem

Why tracking your iron butterfly is harder than it looks

Limited profit potential

Risk of assignment

Requires precise market movement expectation

Dependence on implied volatility

Understanding risk management in tight market conditions

Navigating time decay impact on profit potential

What matters

Key metrics to journal for your iron butterfly

These are the numbers that actually tell you if your strategy has edge

1

Net credit received when opening the iron butterfly

2

Maximum profit zone — the range around the short strike where you profit

3

Wing width and how it affects risk/reward ratio

4

Breakeven points — short strike plus and minus the net credit received

5

Greeks exposure — delta, gamma, and theta at entry and through the trade

6

Adjustment history — rolling wings or closing one side to manage risk

Built for this strategy

How OptionsEdge tracks your iron butterfly

Auto-groups all four legs (short straddle + long wings) into a single iron butterfly position

Tracks net credit, max profit, max loss, and breakeven points at a glance

Roll tracking preserves cost basis when you adjust wings or roll to a new expiration

Strategy-level P&L separates iron butterfly performance from iron condors and other multi-leg trades

Import from ThinkorSwim or Tastytrade CSV — all four legs matched automatically from fills

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