Credit Spread – Ouch, That’s Gonna Leave A Mark…

The credit spread option strategy is one of the most popular option strategies available to traders. Unfortunately, it is also possibly the most dangerous.

The problem is that way too many new option traders slap down significant money and start trading credit spreads immediately upon discovering them without first equiping themselves with the proper knowledge and skills needed to trade them properly. They are so captivated by the stories and claims of ten percent months and 90 percent probabilities that somehow they don’t stop to think about what they are going to do if their trade doesn’t go exactly as planned.

And usually what winds up happening is that the market promptly snaps off their arms and legs, then smacks them across the face with them, then starts to jab them repeatedly in the eyes. In other words – they wind up getting really hurt.

Now stop.

Before you start to get the wrong impression, please, let me clarify something here.

I LOVE credit spreads.

And yes – I really do think it’s a great and dependable way to trade.

And all those stories and claims about making 5 to 10 percent a month while barely spending any time looking at market – and how the odds are so unfairly on the side of the credit spread trader – and how trading credit spreads is just like becoming the ‘house’ instead of the gambler – yes – I believe all those claims and stories too. In fact, not only do I believe those stories – I KNOW they are true – because I experience it myself first hand on a regular basis.

The problem is – there is something big that is being left out of all those claims and stories – and this something is causing way too many fresh new doe eyed option traders to misunderstand this strategy right from the beginning and blindly jump into them with completely wrong expectations.

Yes it’s true that credit spreads and iron condors can be put on with an eighty to ninety percent probability of winning. And yes it’s true that they can generate returns of over ten percent a month. BUT – they also come with a dangerous risk to reward ratio that can be in the range of ten to one.

This means that in order to achieve those 80 to 90 percent probability trades – you need to risk ten dollars to make just one – or to be more realistic – you need to put at risk $10,000.00 for the chance to make just $1,000.00.

And as mammy used to say to us kids – ‘that ain’t nothin but a real awful bad egg’.

Even with the ten percent monthly returns and the high probabilities – all that needs to happen is for a problem month to come along (and it WILL, believe me) – and the next thing you know you’ll be staring at a gigantic loss and a zero balance account!

However…

There is still hope…

Like I said before, I LOVE the credit spread trade.

And – I consistently make money from it.

So clearly there must be a way to profitably trade this strategy without allowing that awful risk to reward issue to get in the way.

And there absolutely is.

It all has to do with the management of the trade.

As soon as you discover the ‘right way’ to place these trades initially – and then how to properly go about managing and adjusting them – that risk to reward dilemma instantly vanishes and goes away.

You just need to take the time BEFORE jumping into the credit spread trading pool to equip yourself with the proper knowledge. A few simple ‘tricks of the trade’ – so when those problem months DO come along (and they WILL believe me) – you will know exactly what you need to do to immediately squash that threat, easily adjust yourself out of the problem, and experience the credit spread option trading strategy for all it’s ‘really’ cracked up to be.

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