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Trading the Iron Condor Option Spread
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Dr. Duke trades the iron condor in real time in this blog. He posts his entries, exits, and adjustments each day.
Recent Posts
Bulls In Charge For Now
New market highs were set again today with the major indexes having positive gains for five days in succession. But these highs are being set on very low volume; less than 300,000 shares traded on the NYSE where the average this year has been around...
New Highs Again Today!
The markets opened up in positive territory today and backed off a bit after disappointing new home sales data was released. But a weakening dollar appeared to prop up the market and the major indexes held most of their gains into the close. Tradi...
New Market Highs
Yesterday's buying continued today, setting new highs on the S&P 500 with a close at $1118. RUT closed near its highs for the year at $624. Surprisingly, this occurred in the face of a stronger dollar and downwardly revised third quarter GD...
Strong Bullish Market Today
Friday I predicted: "next week is likely to be slow and lacking clear direction, given the holiday and fewer people on the trading floors". Well, so much for that prediction! Today's markets were strong from the start, pulled back late in t...
The Pattern Continues
After Thursday's strong down day, one might expect Friday's market to be up; at least, that has been a common pattern the past six weeks or so. Although Friday started out in the red, trading slowly climbed all day and had a final strong push during ...
The Dollar Is Up And The Market Is Down
Greece's debt problems appeared to be fueling a flight to safety out of competing currencies and to the dollar. The relationship of stronger dollar and weaker stock prices appears to be still holding. However, unemployment claims moved up a bit from ...

