iron condor

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So much has happened, yet nothing has changed. The Federal Reserve's event is gone and so are most of the earnings, so now the focus is back to trading that thesis and some fundamentals while dodging the geo-political headlines. Recapping Last Week's Action Friday markets were all...

Recap The week ended on a bullish note. All markets were in the green. Impressively the markets rose in the face of a falling TNX and rising TLT. For the past few weeks, this situation in the TNX and TLT would have caused a market sell off. Absent any negative headline from the Ukraine...

A trader facing a binary event -- such as an earnings date on a stock they are interested in, or FDA approval on a biotech stock -- may want to shy away from that event.   Coupled with short-term Implied Volatility (IV) a trader may still be able to make a successful trade and have the results...

Traders who like to write iron condors -- the options strategies where, as Investopedia puts it,  you buy and hold four different options with different strike prices -- should be on the lookout for different ways to setup these types of trades. Whenever I see a widening of the...