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 ...

First SolarFSLR stock currently trades right in between its 50-day moving average at 153 and its 200-day moving average at 173. With implied volatility elevated, this could make for a great iron ...

Iron condors are a potential trading strategy for sideways movement in the stock market. They combine a short strangle with a long strangle to limit risk. The maximum potential loss and profit of an ...

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 ...

Taiwan SemiconductorTSM was Wednesday's pick for the IBD 50 Growth Stocks to Watch as it closed in on a buy point. So now it's worth looking at an unbalanced iron condor for TSM stock, with a slightly ...

Generally speaking, volatility has been relatively high in the last decade. So when it comes to iron condors and other options strategies sensitive to volatility, we often see them trade at a discount ...

If you have been following this series of articles on creating synthetic pairs using Nadex spreads, you already know that this is an advanced topic. You know that if this is one of the first spread ...

For good reason, volatility indices have been getting a lot of attention in 2020. So has the Nasdaq-100 (NDX) which has left the other major market indices in the dust this year. The Nasdaq-100 ...

Here's the basic setup of an iron condor, along with how to calculate the position's maximum gain, maximum loss, and breakeven point. There are plenty of ways to profit on a stock's movement, beyond ...