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 short iron condor is an income strategy that aims to profit when a stock stays within a specified range over the course of the trade. The trade is composed of four options with the same expiration: ...

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 ...

Iron condors allow traders to potentially profit from sideways movement in the stock market. Each iron condor is a four-legged options trading strategy that limits your losses while presenting some ...

Here's the basic setup of an iron condor, along with how to calculate the position's maximum gain, maximum loss, and breakeven point. There are plenty of ways to profit on a stock's movement, beyond ...

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 ...

Range bound markets are hard to trade mostly because of lack of movement. For option sellers however, it is not a bad market to trade. No movements can create opportunity for option sellers to make a ...

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 ...

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 ...