Iron Condor

If you’re new to our site, make sure to watch our FREE TRADING OPTIONS FOR INCOME VIDEO by Clicking Here. Thanks for visiting! This month in our Options Income Trading Lab we had the opportunity to use one of our favorite Iron Condor Adjustments. We don’t have a name for this one yet, but we’ve [...]

Iron Condor – Part 2 In this post we re-visit an iron condor trade / iron condor adjustments from one of the more difficult months for iron condor traders in 2011… August 8, 2011 The stock market continued it’s wild dive today in response to the S&P down grade – with the SPX index losing [...]

  As we all know the market has taken a major hit over the last 10 days. The RUT, one of our favorite trading vehicles, dropped a total of 136 points during that 10 day time period – or about -16.3%. On average, we iron condor traders know (and PLAN FOR) several of these problem [...]

  Over the next several posts, we’ll be going over the top 10 Iron Condor / Option Trading mistakes we’ve made ourselves and we’ve seen our students and others make. Experiencing and then learning from these ourselves and/or watching other traders make these classic mistakes has helped us save thousands of dollars in losses and [...]

About six months ago we were working on a new trade in our iron condor butterfly spread trading lab that was meant to try and take advantage of the big volatility. Right around that time we read an email (I think it was an email – it might have been an iron condor article) that [...]

While one can find some good info on how to go about adjusting the iron condor strategy – there is very little – if ANY info – on how to properly adjust plain credit spreads. Adjustments are an important and vital part of successfully trading iron condor, the butterfly spread, diagonals, credit spreads – or [...]

We found a good little video this week on using volatility to find bargains on options. Once one has been trading the iron condor strategy for awhile and has gotten the ‘hang’ of it – the next step seem to always be finding tools and tricks to help in gaining an advantage in regards to [...]

The latest iron condor option trading ‘training’ video just came out from Option Safari at the CBOE and in this most recent video Dan Sheridan goes over an iron butterfly trade set up in GLD. An iron butterfly trade actually is an iron condor trade if you want to be technical about it. It is [...]

Weekly Options Income Trade Weekly Options Pinning Yesterday we closed out one of our new weekly options income strategies that we have been implementing / testing over the last several months. There are a number of different factors that play into this trade working as well as it has been, including the use of weekly [...]

From our Iron Condor Trading Lab – The place date for this trade was slightly earlier than normal – this sailed through beautifully with very little stress / adjustments necessary. To learn more about these trades join our free option newsletter. addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ironcondoroptiontradingstrategy.com%2Firon-condor%2Fnov-10-iron-condor%2F’; addthis_title = ‘IRON+CONDOR+%26%238211%3B+CLOSED+FOR+PROFIT’; addthis_pub = ”; Technorati Tags: Butterfly Spread, calendar [...]