GLD – 8/25/16 Decided to enter a GLD Iron Condor. I normally do not like trading condor’s on anything but the indexes and maybe SPY, DIA or QQQ. However I decided to try my hand at a GLD trade. Overall the trade was successful with a respectable return for a 30 day trade, but I […]
Category: Condors
SPY Iron Condor Look Back Trade
SPY – 07/19/2016 This is another trade you should not attempt. I traded this one in my virtual account to show how difficult it is to make a decent return with an EFT. I normally only do Iron Condors on indexes. The other thing I did here was a short term two week expiration which […]
SPX Iron Condor Look Back Trade
SPX – 6/23/16 I placed this Iron Condor the day before the Britain European Union exit vote. This could have been considered a high risk trade, except I legged into it. I sold my Calls on 6/23 and waited until 6/24 to sell my Puts. I was able to take advantage of the market panic […]
NDX Look Back Iron Condor
NDX – 6/17/2016 On 6/17 I decided to place an Iron Condor on NDX while it was trading at $4,371.20. Little did I know at the time this would become a nightmare trade for me. Most of the time when you have to defend an Iron Condor it is on the Put side which is […]
Condors
Iron condors are a favorite of mine. I typically only trade them on indexes such as RUT, SPX and NDX. I prefer SPX because I have found it trades more predictable to me. I seem to run into problems more often with RUT and NDX. That is not to say I do not trade them, […]
