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 [...]

  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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]