credit spread

Nobody likes paying insurance premiums, but what if traders could collect insurance premiums? A previous article examined how to profit with a premium collection trade using Nadex spreads in an uptrend or a flat market. Traders can also collect premium using spreads in a downtrend. Premium...

The market has found its mojo recently but it is too early to initiate call credit spreads. Our put spreads placed over the last few weeks are positioned perfectly but it is too early to sell credit spreads to create Iron Condors with the existing put spreads. Earnings this week from tech...

A credit spread using AAPL weekly puts was released today but got no executions. We released the put credit spread trade alert right when the stock started ramping higher into the close; 30 minutes earlier and fills would have been plentiful. In the final hour of trading the stock rocketed higher...

Well, we tried sneaking a SPY put spread in at the end of today's session but got barely any fills at all. The market is showing resilience and our analysis reveals it is safe to deploy some out of the money put spreads on the indexes. Moving Averages, chart support, and round-number-...

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Today's SPY Iron Condor was an opportunity trade. An opportunity to potentially scalp a nice profit off the SPY became available this afternoon with today's tight market trading range. This morning's volatility juiced this week's options and we jumped on the opportunity. Theta (time decay) took...

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BookingAlpha subscribers have 2 weekly Iron Condors approaching expiration this Friday. The trades are on the SPY and IWM index tracking stocks which have enjoyed quite a run last week and this week already. Earnings continue to be strong and economic data is relatively light this week. This may...