subject: Iron Condor - How To Lose Your Trading Account Fast [print this page] TheIron Condors strategy is perhaps the most dangerous option strategy around.
The problem is that way too many new option traders slap down significant money and start trading iron condors immediately upon discovering them without first equiping themselves with the proper knowledge and skills needed to trade them properly. They are so captivated by the stories and claims of ten percent months and 90 percent probabilities that somehow they don't stop to think about what they are going to do if their trade doesn't go exactly as planned.
And usually what winds up happening is that the market promptly snaps off their arms and legs, smacks them across the face with a two by four, then starts to jab them repeatedly in the eyes. In other words - they wind up getting really hurt.
Now stop.
Before you start to get the wrong impression, please, let me clarify something here.
I absolutely LOVE iron condors. ALOT. In fact, the iron condor is right up there as one of my favorite trading strategies.
And I think it REALLY IS a good solid trade.
And those claims and stories of ten percent monthly gains and ninety percent probabilities? They are absolutely true.
The problem is - there is something big that is being left out of all those claims and stories - and this something is causing way too many fresh new doe eyed option traders to misunderstand this strategy right from the beginning and blindly jump into them with completely wrong expectations.
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.
This means that in order to achieve those 80 to 90 percent probability trades - you need to risk ten dollars to make just one - or to be more realistic - you need to put at risk $10,000.00 for the chance to make just $1,000.00.
And as my dear old mammy used to say: 'that smells a lot like an awful bad egg'. Which in fact it is. That risk to reward ratio is nothing but a low down, no good, smelly rotten deal!
Because once you do the math you find that even with those glorious monthly returns with 80 to 90 percent probability of winning - all it takes is just one problem month to come along and cause a loss that will completely obliterate the 8 to 9 wins you've managed to rack up - as well as potentially the rest of your entire account!
However...
All isn't lost. There IS hope...
As I mentioned earlier - I really do LOVE trading iron condors.
It's one of my favorite trades - and it continually generates profits for me.
So clearly there must be a way to profitably trade this strategy without allowing that awful risk to reward issue to get in the way.
And there absolutely is.
It all has to do with the management of the trade.
As long as you learn the correct way to initially place these trades, then combine that with a super simple management technique and a few easy adjustment tricks - this risk to reward issue can be completely eliminated and no longer presents a problem.
You just need to take the time BEFORE jumping into the iron condorpool 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.
Iron Condor - How To Lose Your Trading Account Fast
By: Ted Nino
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