Sure, everyone takes notice when the stock market rises dramatically--or suddenly plunges--but do you realize that most of the time, the stock market is doing nothing but making very slight deviations from the previous day, week, month, and year? What you need is the strategy that generates returns in the most common market condition--when the market is trading sideways. The Iron Condor is that strategy, and this book will teach you how to master it. When other strategies, meant to be used in big market moves, underperform--the iron condor will enable you to generate income because it is a combination of two popular leverage options strategies: the bull-put credit spread and the bear-call credit spread, one of which will always be profitable. It's no surprise that it is the go-to strategy the most experienced options traders use. Iron Condor: Neutral Strategy for Uncommon Profits introduces you to this strategy with concepts, ideas, and rules of thumb gleaned from the PowerOptionsApplied newsletter's successful trading of the iron condor over the past five years. But this book goes deeper than just theory and concept to bring you real-world examples featuring real profits and actual mistakes. From the professional experiences shared in this guide, you will learn to: - Search for, find, analyze, enter, manage, roll, and exit the iron condor strategy - Select the right security, including indexes and ETFs - Determine the right broker to use when placing an iron condor trade - Reduce and manage risk involved with trading iron condors - Optimize the strategy for maximized returns Complete with profit and loss diagrams and actual calculations, fact-based statistics and probability, this book gives you the knowledge you need to put the iron condor to work--and see how powerful this strategy can be for you.
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39 of 40 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Very Disappointing and Kinda Sleezy,
By Keith "SkydivingNerd" (Wisconsin) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Iron Condor: Neutral Strategy for Uncommon Profit (Power Options: Option Trading Series) (Paperback)
First off, I doubt it's a coincidence that the first two reviews are 5 stars and the people that gave them have only 1 review (as of this writing). Smells like the author hit up a couple friends to leave glowing reviews. To me they are way off the mark.
It's clear these authors had no idea who their target audience was going to be. They write about an advanced 4-legged option strategy but waste 20 pages on what options are and how they work. Then throughout the book they add such deep insights as the chart of time decay and how it occurs faster at the end and how you should use limit orders set midway between bid and ask instead of market orders as a way to get a better return on your trades. Who are they writing to, neophytes or experienced options traders investigating advanced strategies? Take off the first "intro to options" chapter, a review chapter at the end which is totally unnecessary, and the glossary you've got 160 pages. Then take out the few pages at the end of each chapter for the self-tests (which, big surprise here, you have to go to a Web site that's selling something to get the answers) and you've got less than 150 pages to deliver everything the book promises to deliver. A lot of what remains is poorly written and poorly edited (Chapter 6 is 2 pages long). Absolutely no discussion of any of the greeks anywhere. I would have given it two stars because they did address AM settlement and rolling but making you go to a sales-oriented Web site to get self-test answers is incredibly sleezy. Perhaps that was the whole point to begin with. While reading the book I got the impression that it was an afterthought - a sense of "we gotta come up with something" type of effort. Maybe the whole idea of the book was not to come up with a book on iron condors but a vehicle to get people to their Web site to try and get them to buy things.
23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good, but could have been better,
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This review is from: Iron Condor: Neutral Strategy for Uncommon Profit (Power Options: Option Trading Series) (Paperback)
This limited area of option trading is justified in having its own book, and this one is a decent start.
It has these strong points: clear explanations, good charts, good explanation of managing iron condors both when they go well and when they go bad; good discussion of stops, and a short description of 2 similar strategies. It convincingly shows why the strategy is best for indices and not individual stocks. There were some valuable insights that were original to me- most importantly the value in diversifying to non-correlated products not only to reduce the risk of adverse moves, but to spread the reserve needed. It had weaknesses. First, with current book indexing software, I can't understand why it did not contain an index. Second, I feel that a discussion of volatility skews is essential in discussing option pricing and strategies, but this was never mentioned. Third, there were only a few words on using iron condors with futures options. This is an important topic for option diversification, margin, and hedging possibilities. Interestingly, there was no discussion of greeks. I did not find this a problem, but a longer book needs to at least reference them. The book did spell out an iron condor trading system, but it was too vague. Instead of "with high volatility" it would have been helpful to say "When the Implied Volatility is above X" and be more specific about entries and exits. It did show the authors' results of trading over the years 2006- 2009, but the actual system was not described in sufficient detail. A monthly performance would have been an improvement and a more detailed performance summary. (By the way, there are references to the authors website, but I found them limited and appropriate, unlike a few recent trading books that are just website promotions). From a personal perspective, I would have liked to have seen a comparison with advantages and disadvantages of iron condors to naked put selling. I note one of the authors has also written a book called Naked Puts, so a comparison would have been natural. Finally, a word of caution to those thinking of starting to trade iron condors. The authors have a website that tracks their performance since 2009. (It also tries to get paying subscribers). The website is quite poor in describing the strategy and trades, but from my reading, it shows that it has traded 3 iron condor systems. One (Meridian) did so poorly it has stopped trading, and the other 2 (Chromium and Optium) came close to being wiped out this April. (It looks to me that the systems are too focused on the stock indicies and would be better to diversify into commodities). Interestingly, their Double Diagonal System (Quantium) shows a slow and steady return. Maybe that will be their next book (smiling). The poor recent results of a particular iron condor system do not negate the value of the book, and the insights it gave me. That is why, overall, I would give it 4 stars.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Mostly a written infomercial.,
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This review is from: Iron Condor: Neutral Strategy for Uncommon Profit (Power Options: Option Trading Series) (Paperback)
This book has some good information about iron condors (and by default covers credit spreads, too). BUT, it is really an infomercial for the PowerOptions website. You can not implement many of their methods without a subscription to the PowerOptions website. Not that there's anything wrong with PowerOptions or promoting it, you should just know up front, that is the thrust of the book. BTW, PowerOptions is a great service and well worth the cost for the serious options trader. So, this book gets 3 stars for the book itself and a 4th star when combined with PowerOptions.
So, if you're just tinkering with options, save your money for the next commission. If you are a serious options trader, go getchya a copy!
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