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I Loved Iron Condors Until...
Hi all and welcome to this article by San Jose Options Mentoring. The purpose of this instructional writing is to warn beginning and intermediate option traders about the risks involved in trading Iron Condors. Although Iron Condors can produce monthly income, they can also produce catastrophic losses to your trading account if you do not trade them correctly. Now, unfortunately most books and most option courses that teach how to trade the Iron Condor, push that the Iron Condor should be traded near expiration. This strategy will work for a few months in a row, but then when the market wants to wake up, the trader using this option strategy will also wake up to find most of his trading capital gone.
If you have a few minutes, I would recommend watching the video that we have included with this article. You will see an Iron Condor on the SPY which demonstrates the type of Iron Condor that can wipe out your entire trading capital.
Specifically, this video is on trading an Iron Condor on the SPY with less than one month to go for expiration. The problem with this strategy is that the underlying symbol does not have very much time or wiggle room. Often times the option trader will bring his trade into the last week of expiration, and the underlying will be right next to the short strike which is extremely dangerous. This is a typical Iron Condor that is taught in 99% of the courses on the Internet. This is the Iron Condor that can ruin your life.
As this option trade nears expiration it becomes more and more risky. The Delta on the position can change extremely fast because the Gamma is extremely high. This means that the trade is outrageously volatile as it gets closer to expiration, and again, if you are near the short strike just a few days before expiration date, then you will be extremely stressed because you will be in a horrible situation. Please watch the video at the 6 minute mark to see what I am talking about.
Well, to wrap things up, I would like to say thank you for reading this article and watching the video that goes along with it. I hope you have learned some of the things about the risky Iron Condor. Now don't get me wrong. The Condor is not a bad strategy. The problem that I see is that most people trade this option spread too close to expiration, and this is a serious problem. There is a much better way to trade this strategy. If you would like to learn how to do it safely, then I highly recommend that you visit San Jose Options because they teach the best Iron Condor that I have ever seen.
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