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!   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 [...]

  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 [...]

  While looking to create the ‘perfect’ iron condor, we want to search for a ‘boring’ stock, index, or underlying to trade. This is a trading strategy that thrives in calm, range bound markets. We want an underlying that is sleepy, barely moving around, caught in a range. Some things that can throw a wrench [...]

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 [...]

My plan for trading the iron condor when I first got started trading this strategy was to put them and keep them on all the way until expiration. Then I would just let them expire worthless and have that premium remain in my account. Back then I believed this was the best way to play [...]

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 [...]

We closed out this trade for just under 9 percent gain. See risk graph of position right before closing it out below…     addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ironcondoroptiontradingstrategy.com%2Foption-trades%2Fjuly-10-iron-condor-butterfly-closed-profit%2F’; addthis_title = ‘Iron+Condor+Closed+For+8%25+Profit’; addthis_pub = ”; Technorati Tags: butterfly option, Butterfly Spread, Credit Spread, credit spreads, Iron Condor, iron condors, Option Trading

In our previous post (May 18) we showed a risk graph of our flattened out iron condor / butterfly position right after we ‘tied it off’ with several adjustments including one of our ‘magic puts’ – in an effort to maintain some control while the markets swing around here wildly. Today on the 20th – [...]

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 [...]