Iron Condor – Owe, That’s Gonna Leave A Mark…
The iron condor is one of the most popular option strategies available to traders. Unfortunately, it is also possibly the most dangerous. The thing...
The is one of the most popular option strategies available to traders. Unfortunately, it is also possibly the most dangerous.
The thing is, when rookie option traders first hear of this strategy (perhaps from a late night infomercial or free hotel seminar conducted by slick salesmen touting it as the greatest thing since sliced bread) – very few seem to able to resist the temptation to jump right into trading them head first – with actual real hard earned money on the line – and usually way too much of it.
And unfortunately what always seems to happen to a high percentage of them is that they promptly wind up getting their trading accounts demolished and their heads handed to them on a platter.
Now stop – wait – hold on just a second.
I don’t want you to get the wrong idea here. So let me explain something.
I absolutely LOVE iron condors. ALOT. In fact, the iron condor is right up there as one of my favorite trading strategies.
And yes – I really do think it’s a great and dependable way to trade.
And all those stories and claims about making 5 to 10 percent a month while barely spending any time looking at market – and how the odds are so unfairly on the side of the iron condor trader – and how trading iron condors is just like becoming the ‘house’ instead of the gambler – yes – I believe all those claims and stories too. In fact, not only do I believe those stories – I KNOW they are true – because I experience it myself first hand on a regular basis.
The big problem is that there is some very important information being left out of those iron condor claims and stories. Information that I’m sure would keep alot of rookie option traders – who frankly just don’t know any better – from blindly making that ‘over-confident’ leap into the iron condor abyss.
Yes it’s true that iron condors and credit spreads can be put on with an eighty to ninety percent probability of winning. And yes it’s true that they can generate returns of over ten percent a month. BUT – they also come with a dangerous risk to reward ratio that can be in the range of ten to one.
10 to 1! That means that in order to try and make just one dollar, you need to be willing to risk ten. Or, put another way – in order to make 100 dollars, you need to risk 1,000 dollars. Or – risk $10,000.00 to hopefully make just $1,000.00!
And as my mammy used to say (God bless her soul) – that risk to reward ratio is ‘an awful bad egg’. In fact, it’s an honest to goodness stinking rotten deal.
Just do the math. With a risk to reward like that, even with the great probabilities and wonderful monthly returns – before long a problem month could come along and completely wipe out your entire account!
However…
There is still hope…
As I mentioned earlier – I really do LOVE trading iron condors.
And – I consistently make money from it.
So apparently, even with that atrocious risk to reward quandary, there must be a method to generate consistent income with this trade.
And there is.
It all revolves around how you go about handling the trade.
That risk to reward problem quickly becomes a complete non issue as soon as you educate yourself on the proper way to initially set these trades up and how to correctly manage and adjust them.
You just need to take the time BEFORE jumping into the pool to equip yourself with this little bit of knowledge. A few simple ‘tricks of the trade’ – so when those problem months DO come along (and they WILL believe me) – you will know exactly what you need to do to immediately squash that threat, easily adjust yourself out of the problem, and experience the iron condor for all it’s ‘really’ cracked up to be.
To learn these ‘tricks’ to trading the , go to this site and watch my free video. It will show you an extremely simple method for properly placing, managing, and ADJUTING iron condor trades.