Iron Condor – How To Lose Your ENTIRE Trading Account Quickly
The iron condor is one of the most popular option strategies available to traders. Unfortunately, it is also possibly the most dangerous.
See here’s the deal: when a new fresh faced option trader first hears of this trading strategy – he or she becomes so enamoured with it that they just can’t seem to help but jump right into trading them – risking way too much money – and without much thought of what they are going to do if the trade starts to go wrong.
And it seems that a good percentage of them – if not most of them – promptly wind up getting their groins kicked in, their heads ripped off, their eyes poked out, and getting hurt really, really bad.
Now wait -
I don’t want you to get the wrong idea here. So let me explain something.
I LOVE iron condors.
I think the iron condor really IS a great trade.
And yes, I absolutely believe all those stories and claims you hear swirling around about iron condors generating ten percent plus monthly returns and providing trades that have the probability of winning somewhere in the range of eighty to ninety percent. In fact, I KNOW those stories are true because I see it happen all the time in my very own trading account.
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.
See what isn’t being talked about with iron condors is that while yes, they can provide great monthly returns and high probabilities of winning- they also come attached with a horrendous risk to reward ratio – sometimes as poor as 10 to 1!
10 to 1! That means that in order to try and make just one dollar, you need to be willing to risk ten. Or, put another way – in order to make 100 dollars, you need to risk 1,000 dollars. Or – risk $10,000.00 to hopefully make just $1,000.00!
And as mammy used to say to us kids – ‘that ain’t nothin but a real awful bad egg’.
Even with the ten percent monthly returns and the high probabilities – all that needs to happen is for a problem month to come along (and it WILL, believe me) – and the next thing you know you’ll be staring at a gigantic loss and a zero balance account!
But…
There is still hope…
Because – as I wrote previously – I REALLY DO like the iron condor strategy.
Over the last ten years it’s been extremely profitable 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.
Once you possess the correct iron condor knowledge and know how – and understand how to apply a couple super easy to implement adjustment tricks – you’ll know exactly how to exterminate any problematic market threat that comes your way, allowing you to experience the iron condor trading strategy for all that it’s ‘actually’ cracked up to be.
To learn these ‘tricks’ to trading the Iron Condor , go to this Iron Condor Adjustments site and watch my free video. It will show you an extremely simple method for properly placing, managing, and ADJUTING iron condor trades.
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