Hi, I just went through the course. I have a question on the iron condor. I had subscribed to another site that did those. They said they picked strike prices far away from the current price so that the odds were better than 90% that they would make money. Of course the market started to gyrate 100s of points per day and everyone was holding their breath for days. So I learned that these spread trades are not boring at all but can be extremely stressful. I was glad to see that you weren’t just touting you make money 90% of the time. I see that all the time but they fail to explain that you can lose 100% of your money up to 10% of the time. That makes the strategy not conservative at all. So my question is how much capital would you allocate to iron condors? Also, [...]
“The Iron Condor is not boring.”
October 26th, 2009
Genius Tags: Iron Condor, September 2008
Posted in Option Strategies, Options Education, Trades and Adjustments | 5 Comments »
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