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 [...]

New video covers the pros and cons of the iron condor as it is becoming a popular option trading strategy. While this strategy can produce impressive, passive results, it’s important not to forget that along with this trade come some potential pitfalls that every trader should get to know and understand. Even though the iron [...]

The iron condor trade can be an extremely basic and simple trade to put on. In fact, it is possible to profitably play this trade just by following a super easy ‘stupid simple’ set of rules month after month after month. However, for those of you who might grow bored of such a super simple [...]

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 [...]

July RUT Iron Condor  With ‘Whipsaw Curbs’ We launched our July trade this last week and so far so good. We’ve put some curbs in place for any big moves that might occur short term and even though we’ve flattened this trade out considerably our theta is still really rich and expect to hit our [...]

Iron Condor Course – Learn How To Adjust CLICK HERE One of the fastest and easiest ways to hedge / adjust the type of option income trades we do (like iron condors, butterflies) is to simply purchase a cheap extra long call or put in the direction that the market is heading. While some traders [...]

The iron condor strategy is used by option traders ideally in non trending situations. The spread takes advantage of theta decay in options – as the day progress moving towards expiration day, all options are losing value – and in the case of the iron condor strategy – as long as the ‘sold’ strikes of [...]