Iron condors are a potential trading strategy for sideways movement in the stock market. They combine a short strangle with a long strangle to limit risk. The maximum potential loss and profit of an ...

What is an iron condor? An iron condor is a neutral options strategy with defined risk that combines a short put vertical spread and a short call vertical spread with the same expiration in a single ...

Trading options can be a complicated process. Information overload among the uninitiated is prevalent, as a lot of options strategies are available and traders need to evaluate all of the possible ...

A trader who may like to write strangles for income trades and get the most premium in regular account’s will find that they can’t do these types of trades in their IRA,s. The put side is basically ...

Condors are versatile options trading strategies that provide more opportunities to profit. An options trader can set up a condor or iron condor to profit from a sideways market or volatile one.

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Recently I wrote a piece discussing how implied volatility may be used to choose strikes when creating a market neutral option trade: VOLQ, One-Day Price Moves, And An Edge In Trading NDX Iron Condors ...

Mark Wolfinger is a writer and author of three books, with 30+ years of experience trading option contracts. Gordon Scott has been an active investor and technical analyst or 20+ years. He is a ...

Iron Condors profit from low-volatility markets by using a four-leg strategy. Maximum profit is limited to the net credit received from setting up the trade. Losses are capped, relating to the strike ...

As part of an ongoing series of articles I write for Seeking Alpha on the many different option strategies available to traders, this week I will go into the 'Reverse Iron Condor' spread, which is one ...

Trading options can be a complicated process. Information overload among the uninitiated is prevalent, as a lot of options strategies are available and traders need to evaluate all of the possible ...

Amazon (AMZN) is currently a compelling candidate for an iron condor strategy with the stock being stuck in between the 50 and 200-day moving averages. Amazon stock is also showing high implied ...