Iron Condor

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The iron condor option strategy is an option spread that allows the option trader placing the trade to realize a good return on investment in a relatively short amount of time by ‘betting’ [...]

Upon first learning about iron condors, many new option traders will just put them on without having a full plan in place for how to manage the trade if it goes against them - or how and when to close the trade once it is profitable - or if they will even close it at [...]

There are two faces to the iron condor spread.
The first face is the one most new traders are introduced to. When the iron condor and the rookie option trader first meet - usually the picture that is painted of the iron condor is one of magnificence - grandeur - a wonderful, little known, very difficult [...]

The condor spread is one of the lesser known and/or used option spread strategies.
While the name is similar to the more popular ‘iron condor’ strategy - the ‘condor spread’ is different - even while the risk graph of the trade looks the same.
The difference between the condor and the iron condor is that the condor [...]

Several different option spread trading strategies which investors can use for creating monthly income include the iron condor, credit spread (or vertical spread) - the butterfly spread - and others.
Option spread trading refers to the act of selling one option and buying one option. In the case of the iron condor strategy - these options [...]

At the core of the iron condor strategy is the vertical spread.
If we were to reverse engineer the iron condor strategy - take it apart - split it in half - and look at what the spread is actually constructed from - we would find that it is simply 2 credit spreads. A vertical spread [...]

Option selling has become more main stream recently as more and more retail traders learn about the various option spread trading strategies which can provide actually quite impressive returns over short periods of time.
Option selling is the act of an investor ’selling’ an option - either call or put - to bring a credit into [...]

 RUT IRON CONDORS - JULY 09
6-26-09
This month we took our iron condors off a little earlier than we normally would allowing us almost 3 full weeks of ‘vacation’ - not having to worry or watch the market in regards to this trade whatsoever. These last few months have been beautiful for these trades.
Also [...]

 RUT IRON CONDOR - JUNE 09 - CLOSED 
5-27-09
5-24-09
This months Iron Condor trade was pretty much text book perfect. Put it on, place our exit orders, take it off. Almost seems like there’s something ‘wrong’ here with the market behaving so nicely…
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