TD Butterfly Strategy
TD (The Toronto-Dominion Bank), in the Financial Services sector, (Banks - Diversified industry), listed on NYSE.
The Toronto-Dominion Bank, together with its subsidiaries, provides various financial products and services in Canada, the United States, and internationally. It operates through three segments: Canadian Retail, U.S. Retail, and Wholesale Banking. The company offers personal deposits, such as chequing, savings, and investment products; financing, investment, cash management, international trade, and day-to-day banking services to businesses; and financing options to customers at point of sale for automotive and recreational vehicle purchases. It also provides credit cards and payments; real estate secured lending, auto finance, and consumer lending services; point-of-sale payment solutions for large and small businesses; wealth and asset management products, and advice to retail and institutional clients through direct investing, advice-based, and asset management businesses; and property and casualty insurance, as well as life and health insurance products. The company also provides capital markets, and corporate and investment banking products and services, including underwriting and distribution of new debt and equity issues; advice on strategic acquisitions and divestitures; and trading, funding, and investment services to corporations, governments, and institutions.
TD (The Toronto-Dominion Bank) trades in the Financial Services sector, specifically Banks - Diversified, with a market capitalization of approximately $180.00B, a trailing P/E of 11.27, a beta of 0.87 versus the broader market, a 52-week range of 64.12-109.22, average daily share volume of 2.5M, a public-listing history dating back to 1996, approximately 100K full-time employees. These structural characteristics shape how TD stock options price implied volatility around earnings windows, capital events, and macro-driven sector rotations.
A beta of 0.87 places TD roughly in line with broader market moves, so the strategy payoff and realized volatility track the index-equivalent baseline. The trailing P/E of 11.27 is on the value side, where IV often compresses outside event windows because forward growth expectations are already discounted into the share price. TD pays a dividend, which adjusts put-call parity and shifts the ex-dividend pricing across the listed chain.
What is a butterfly on TD?
A long call butterfly buys one lower-strike call, sells two ATM calls, and buys one higher-strike call, paying a small net debit for a defined-risk position that maxes out if the underlying pins the middle strike at expiration.
Current TD snapshot
As of May 15, 2026, spot at $107.04, ATM IV 22.60%, IV rank 11.49%, expected move 6.48%. The butterfly on TD below is built from the same end-of-day chain, with strikes snapped to listed contracts and premiums pulled from the bid/ask midpoint at a 34-day expiry.
Why this butterfly structure on TD specifically: TD IV at 22.60% is on the cheap side of its 1-year range, which favors premium-buying structures like a TD butterfly, with a market-implied 1-standard-deviation move of approximately 6.48% (roughly $6.94 on the underlying). The 34-day window matched to the front-month expiry keeps theta exposure bounded while still capturing the post-snapshot move; longer-dated TD expiries trade a higher absolute premium for lower per-day decay. Position sizing on TD should anchor to the underlying notional of $107.04 per share and to the trader's directional view on TD stock.
TD butterfly setup
The TD butterfly below is built from the end-of-day chain, with each option leg priced at the bid/ask midpoint of its listed strike. With TD near $107.04, the first option leg uses a $100.00 strike; additional legs (when the strategy has them) anchor to spot-relative offsets. Premiums come from the bid/ask midpoint on the listed TD chain at a 34-day expiry; the cross-strike IV skew is reflected directly in the per-leg values rather than approximated. Quantity sizing assumes one contract per option leg (or 100 TD shares for the stock leg in covered calls and collars).
| Action | Type | Strike / Basis | Premium (est) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buy 1 | Call | $100.00 | $8.20 |
| Sell 2 | Call | $105.00 | $4.30 |
| Buy 1 | Call | $110.00 | $1.50 |
TD butterfly risk and reward
- Net Premium / Debit
- -$110.00
- Max Profit (per contract)
- $346.86
- Max Loss (per contract)
- -$110.00
- Breakeven(s)
- $101.10, $108.90
- Risk / Reward Ratio
- 3.153
Max profit equals the wing width minus net debit times 100 (reached when the underlying pins the middle strike); max loss equals the net debit times 100. Two breakevens at lower-wing plus debit and upper-wing minus debit.
TD butterfly payoff curve
Modeled P&L at expiration across a range of underlying prices for the butterfly on TD. Each row is one sampled price point from the computed payoff curve; the full curve uses 200 price points internally before being summarized into 10 rows here.
| Underlying Price | % From Spot | P&L at Expiration |
|---|---|---|
| $0.01 | -100.0% | -$110.00 |
| $23.68 | -77.9% | -$110.00 |
| $47.34 | -55.8% | -$110.00 |
| $71.01 | -33.7% | -$110.00 |
| $94.67 | -11.6% | -$110.00 |
| $118.34 | +10.6% | -$110.00 |
| $142.01 | +32.7% | -$110.00 |
| $165.67 | +54.8% | -$110.00 |
| $189.34 | +76.9% | -$110.00 |
| $213.00 | +99.0% | -$110.00 |
When traders use butterfly on TD
Butterflies on TD are pinning bets - traders use them when they expect TD to settle near a specific level at expiration (often the prior close, a round number, or the max-pain strike) and want defined-risk exposure to that outcome.
TD thesis for this butterfly
The market-implied 1-standard-deviation range for TD extends from approximately $100.10 on the downside to $113.98 on the upside. A TD long call butterfly is a pinning play: it pays maximum at the middle strike if TD settles there at expiration, with the wing legs capping both the cost and the maximum loss to the net debit. Current TD IV rank near 11.49% sits in the lower third of its 1-year distribution, where IV often re-expands toward the mean; this favors premium-buying structures and disadvantages premium-selling structures on TD at 22.60%. As a Financial Services name, TD options can move on sector-level news flow (peer earnings, regulatory updates, industry-specific macro data) in addition to TD-specific events.
TD butterfly positions are structurally neutral / pin (limited-risk, limited-reward); the modeled P&L assumes European-style exercise at expiration and ignores early assignment, transaction costs, dividends paid before expiry on the stock leg (when present), and the bid-ask spread on the listed chain. TD positions also carry Financial Services sector concentration risk; news flow inside the sector (peer earnings, regulatory shifts, supply-chain headlines) can move TD alongside the broader basket even when TD-specific fundamentals are unchanged. Always rebuild the position from current TD chain quotes before placing a trade.
Frequently asked questions
- What is a butterfly on TD?
- A butterfly on TD is the butterfly strategy applied to TD (stock). The strategy is structurally neutral / pin (limited-risk, limited-reward): A long call butterfly buys one lower-strike call, sells two ATM calls, and buys one higher-strike call, paying a small net debit for a defined-risk position that maxes out if the underlying pins the middle strike at expiration. With TD stock trading near $107.04, the strikes shown on this page are snapped to the nearest listed TD chain strike and the premiums come straight from the end-of-day bid/ask midpoint.
- How are TD butterfly max profit and max loss calculated?
- Max profit equals the wing width minus net debit times 100 (reached when the underlying pins the middle strike); max loss equals the net debit times 100. Two breakevens at lower-wing plus debit and upper-wing minus debit. For the TD butterfly priced from the end-of-day chain at a 30-day expiry (ATM IV 22.60%), the computed maximum profit is $346.86 per contract and the computed maximum loss is -$110.00 per contract. Live intraday quotes will differ as the chain moves through the trading session.
- What is the breakeven for a TD butterfly?
- The breakeven for the TD butterfly priced on this page is roughly $101.10 and $108.90 at expiration, derived from end-of-day chain premiums. Breakeven is the underlying price at which the strategy's P&L crosses zero ignoring transaction costs and assignment risk. The current TD market-implied 1-standard-deviation expected move is approximately 6.48%; if the move sits well outside the breakeven distance, the structure's risk-reward becomes correspondingly tighter.
- When should you consider a butterfly on TD?
- Butterflies on TD are pinning bets - traders use them when they expect TD to settle near a specific level at expiration (often the prior close, a round number, or the max-pain strike) and want defined-risk exposure to that outcome.
- How does current TD implied volatility affect this butterfly?
- TD ATM IV is at 22.60% with IV rank near 11.49%, which is on the low end of its 1-year range. Premium-buying structures (long call, long put, debit spreads) are relatively cheap in this regime; premium-selling structures collect less credit per unit risk.