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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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Market Crash Protection For Credit Spreads

You can protect your credit spread trades from the risk of a market crash. Learn exactly how conservative income investors can insure against credit spread portfolio risk during a “black swan” event.

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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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Covered Call Income – Extra Earnings From Stocks You Own

Chances are you know that elemental sodium and elemental chlorine are both absolutely deadly. Put some sodium in water and it immediately blazes into white-hot flames. Inhale a few breaths of 100% pure chlorine (the stuff you pour into swimming pools is only 2% chlorine), and you will have no further concern about the national […]

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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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