After having taken the short put side of this "troubled" iron condor off for near worthless (.05), I rolled the call side out another week and improved the spread by a strike. I filled this for a .57 db, and tomorrow I'll look at selling a setup to finance this roll and then look at its scratch point ... .
... to Dec 9th 124/127/127/131 Iron Fly for a .47 ($47)/contract credit. I figured I had to do something here to improve the prospects of this broken iron condor. I first rolled the short call vert side from the 116.5/119.5 short call vert to the 127/131. The only way to get a credit from this intra-expiry roll was to widen the spread by one strike. And then...
Continuing to work the call side up on this setup one strike at a time ... . With 7 DTE, and the put side of this setup nearing worthless, I thought I would close it out here for near max profit, which I did for a .04 ($4)/contract debit. I then proceeded to roll the Aug 19th 121/126 short call vert out to the Sept 2nd expiration, which I did for a small debit...
With 3 DTE in this post-Brexit troubled setup, I'm covering the put side for near worthless (for a .10/$10 debit). I have proceeded to roll out the short call side "as is" to the September monthly expiry (for a 2.18 ($218)/contract debit), but decided to wait a bit to sell a short put side against for a credit that exceeds the cost of the roll to see if we get...
With 7 DTE here and with the short put vert side of this post-Brexit troubled setup nearing worthless, I covered the short put side for a .13 debit ($13). I then rolled the short call side up and out from the Aug 12th 1170/1180 to the Aug 19th 1215/1230 for a .26 ($26)/contract credit and sold the Aug 19th 1190/1200 short put vert against for a 1.02 ($102)...
Although I still have a little bit of time on this, it's too little time to effectively roll the short put side up of this setup here without pushing it in too tight to the call side for my taste, so I'm closing the put side out for a .10 ($10)/contract debit here and leaving the call side to dangle for a bit. As always, hope springs eternal that price will break...
With 4 DTE left in this troubled post-Brexit setup and the short put side nearing worthless, I bought to cover it for a .15 ($15)/contract debit, rolled out the short call side from the Aug 12th 2145/2160 to the Aug 26th 2155/2175 for a .55 ($55)/contract credit, and sold a 83% probability of profit short put vert against in the same expiry for an additional 1.05...
With the short put wing of this Brexit wracked setup approaching worthless, I closed it today for a .04 ($4)/contract debit. I then rolled the short call side out to the August 19th expiry to the 121/126 for a .50 ($50)/contract credit and (inadvertently) sold an overlapping short put spread against it for a .25 ($25)/contract credit. (This is what happens when...
This is one of a trio of post-Brexit trades in RUT, NDX, and SPX that I put on post-Brexit and that moved, well, a little more than I'd like ... . Today (with 2 DTE to go), I closed out the put side for a .15 debit, and then rolled the call side from 2115/2125 to the 2145/2160 for a .30 credit and then sold the Aug 12th 2100/2115 for a 1.50 credit (giving me the...
This was my only "Bremain" bet trade, and it's taking its sweet time coming off the highs ... . The trade started out as a directional spread -- a short call vertical, that was soon breached post-Brexit. My recollection is that I proceeded to sell a short put vert against the call side (completing an iron condor) to protect the call side from further upmove. ...
... for a $137 credit to defend my breached call side. This thing is starting to morph into an "iron fly" ... . I will naturally need price to move significantly back toward my call side strikes before expiry to not have to roll the call side out for duration/strike improvement. Nature of the beast ....
As with my NDX/IUXX iron condor, playing defense here, and rolling up the put side for an additional $45/contract credit. Still shooting for 50% max of the original setup ... .
What's new? Playing defense of the call side here on this up move. Rolled for an $85/contract credit ... . Still shooting for 50% profit of the credit received for the original setup, but will need a little assistance to the downside to get there.
Rolling toward current price on this iron condor, as well as on the RUT and NDX ones, too. Basically, I'm rolling to as close to the 85% probability out-of-the-money strike for the expiry ... . I don't want to get in crazy close if this is short-term, short squeeze price action. Know Your Scratch Point: The original setup was put on for a $280 credit; I rolled...
Rolling the call side of my July 22nd SPX iron condor down a few strikes to delta balance here ... . (I basically rolled it to the 75% probability out-of-the-money short call strike). Filled for an $80/contract credit. Scratch Point: The original setup was put on for a $280/contract credit, and I brought in an additional $80/contract for this roll, so my...
Not every trade works out ... . The original notion of this iron condor was that, pre-Brexit, we'd pin at 2085 or so as traders basically sidelined themselves waiting for the outcome. No such luck with late polling showing a Remain lead. At market open, I closed out the short put side and then rolled out the call side (for a $35/contract credit; this was before...
Figured I'd balance the wings out width wise here, as well as capture some increase in value experienced by the long put (which gave a small strike price improvement assist to the short put), even though I promised myself I wasn't going to touch this bugger with only 9 DTE. Filled for a $75/contract credit ... . Dissatisfied with the resulting net delta of the...
With a mere 9 DTE to go with this setup, this is probably the last roll I'll do here to capture movement and/or delta balance ... . Filled for $150 credit ... . Notes: Actually just noticed that I inadvertently widened the spread by $5, which is probably why I got $150 out of it. Lol.