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Credit Spread Volatility | Using Implied Volatility & Delta

Credit Spread Volatility | Using Implied Volatility & Delta

Credit spread volatility is critical to the selection and management of income-producing market positions. Whether using Implied Volatility (IV) or Delta, or both, the investor must consider option volatility, along with other data-driven trade selection criteria, to produce the highest reward/risk ratio trades.

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Best Iron Condor Strategy

Iron Condors and Credit Spreads are ideal for conservative investors seeking recurring income. Here are the 9 “The Monthly Income Machine” SaferTrader.com screening criteria to identify the best Iron Condor and Credit Spread candidates.

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Credit Spreads | Trade Entry Criteria and Screening Service

This “white paper” will detail: 1. Option Credit Spreads for the risk-adverse income seeker 2. “The Monthly Income Machine” specific trade entry criteria I recommend for selecting promising option credit spread candidates, 3. A new, completely optional screening service that completes this most time consuming part of identifying conforming credit spread candidates for you. Contact […]

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Credit Spreads Target: 4-8%/Month Income for the Risk-Adverse

Credit Spreads Target: 4-8%/Month Income for the Risk-Adverse

Dear Income Investor Before we go any further, let’s make sure you are at the right place. If you nod your head “yes” to each of the following statements, you will be very glad you’re here because SaferTrader and the Monthly Income Machine were designed specifically for you! I want more monthly income – much […]

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Credit Spreads & Iron Condors During Low Volatility Periods

From time to time, the markets will begin a period of unusually low volatility. When this occurs, it can be more difficult to identify attractive income-generating credit spread trades that meet “The Monthly Income Machine” premium requirement at the strike prices the prescribed distance from the underlying stock, ETF, or index. So let me weigh […]

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Screening Stocks For Monthly Income Machine Credit Spreads

I’m often asked what stocks, indexes and ETF’s I use for generating my own monthly income credit spread and Iron Condor option trades. The book “The Monthly Income Machine” spells out a technique and a series of specific qualifying “entry criteria” that must be met for an underlying stock or index to be used properly […]

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Credit Spread Income: Take Profit Early or Wait Until Expiration?

As it should be, the main trade management focus of “The Monthly Income Machine” is on properly handling the occasional position going the wrong way. But we should also consider the pleasant matter of what to do with the winners – allow them to expire worthless so that we realize the entire trade profit, or […]

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Credit Spreads – Managing Headline Risks

Often, the markets themselves provide the best reminders of why we need to use all of the “Monthly Income Machine” entry rules when establishing our income-generating credit spreads and Iron Condors. Now one of the many advantages that credit spreads offer includes the fact that they are essentially non-directional – i.e. we don’t care if […]

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Overbought-Oversold Markets: How to Recognize and Profit From Them

A Lee Finberg “White Paper” With a quill pen and some parchment paper, Isaac Newton, in a single summer, created calculus AND unraveled much of the mystery of the physical laws that drive the universe. Several hundred years later, Albert Einstein – who allowed as how he did it standing on Newton’s shoulders – figured […]

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Account Money Management – Avoiding Trading Account Death

Okay, perhaps the title is a bit over the top. But, if it gets your attention – for real – it’s worth it. Most investors – especially conservative ones like those using “The Monthly Income Machine“- know that controlling risk is more important to trading account health than trying to maximize profit. The problem is […]

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