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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Please Note: Blog posts are not selected, edited or screened by Seeking Alpha editors. A strangle is not as violent as it sounds, nor as deadly. It simply is a variation on the straddle, and it ...

Traders make most investments with the expectation that the price will go up. They make some with the hope that the price will move down. Unfortunately, it is often the case that the price doesn't do ...

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 ...

Staying neutral can be difficult, whether in lunchroom arguments at work, watching a battle between rival sports teams or trading stocks in a volatile market. But one of the advantages of markets is ...