Overview: I guess sometimes we can’t get the trades we want and in those cases it’s usually better to wait another day or go play another game. I decided to go play another game . . . of sorts. A while back I mentioned that I would trade a RUT Iron Condor as part of […]
Intro: I have a long history and something of a love/hate relationship with Iron Condors. One of my first option trades was a DIA iron condor during the financial crisis. I went back and looked and at the time I opened that trade, implied volatility was in the low 50% range and it fell to […]
Trend Following Overview: Trend Following trading generally makes use of a large number of underlyings (think markets) and trades all markets with a mechanical system. As I mentioned on this post, Donchian channel breakout systems can be used across numerous markets. There are countless other trend following systems that can be used to trade numerous […]