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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]