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Stock Market Options Trading

SPX 3DTE Iron Condor Options Strategy Research

Aug 8, 2023
The discussion dives into the 3DTE iron condor options strategy, emphasizing its advantages over zero DTE trades. It reveals how trading on Fridays can increase profitability while leveraging volatility forecasts. The strategy boasts an impressive 100% win rate over the past four months, though further research is planned. Listeners are invited to join the Alpha Crunching community for deeper insights and support in navigating these trading tactics.
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Quick takeaways

  • Selling 3DTE iron condors on Fridays can offer wider profit zones and less immediate volatility, enhancing trader success rates.
  • Maintaining a wider distance between strikes while trading in alignment with low volatility forecasts can significantly improve win rates.

Deep dives

Understanding Iron Condors and Strategies

The discussion centers around the concept of iron condors, a popular options trading strategy that involves selling call and put spreads. A key aspect of this approach is the ability of traders to earn from time decay and the market's price volatility. The speaker mentions a successful personal experience with a winning zero DTE (days to expiration) iron condor, highlighting how this strategy can result in profitable trades when the market behaves predictably. A deeper exploration of trading three DTE iron condors extends this strategy, offering traders an opportunity to gain wider profit zones compared to zero DTE trades.

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