The word scares people, especially when put next to the words, retirement, savings, or life’s earnings. When I talk about options trading with people who dabble in online investments, I usually hear a ...

The iron condor is a four-legged options strategy intended to capitalize on a period of muted, low-volatility price action in the underlying security. This play is essentially the combination of a ...

Condors are versatile options trading strategies that provide more opportunities to profit. An options trader can set up a condor or iron condor to profit from a sideways market or volatile one.

You may have heard about iron condors, a popular option strategy used by professional money managers and individual investors. Let's begin by discussing what an iron condor is, and then how you can ...

What is an iron condor? An iron condor is a neutral options strategy with defined risk that combines a short put vertical spread and a short call vertical spread with the same expiration in a single ...

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Mark Wolfinger is a writer and author of three books, with 30+ years of experience trading option contracts. Gordon Scott has been an active investor and technical analyst or 20+ years. He is a ...