Iron Condor Plan and a Credit Spread Plan for Weeklys (SM) Income

Dan Sheridan Iron Condor Plan and a Credit Spread Plan for Weeklys (SM) Income October 29, 2013 Sheridan Options Mentoring, Inc. www.sheridanmentoring.com Page 1

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Credit Spreads Page 3

Guidelines At or above 20 Day Simple Moving Average - put on Put credit Spread At or Below 20 Day Simple Moving Average - put on Call credit Spread Usually stay away from Earnings date, but don t have to Days to Expiration? 15 DTE Where to sell Short Strike? 15-16 short delta or less ( 15-16 not available, range is 13-19) Where to buy long strike? 10 points up on call side and 10 points down on put side Minimum Credit? $0.75 Yield Target per week? 7-9% on risk capital Page 4

Guidelines Continued Profit Target? 80% of credit Max Loss of trade? Credit Max time allowed in trade? 8-Days When will I usually put this trade on? Every Thursday at 10:30 am central Should I use contingent orders? Stay out of earnings week Possible 1-2 day overlap of trades Page 5

Case Study Open Margin Credit Close DIT Yield Jun 6 $266 $0.80 Jun 10 4 Jun 13 $273 $1.05 Jun 19 6 8-9% Jun 20 $275 $0.77 Jun 28 8 7% Jun 27 $277 $0.92 Jul 5 8 8% Jul 5 $283 $0.81 Jul 9 4 7% Jul 11 $296 $1.10 Jul 19 8 Jul 18 $305 $1.05 Jul 26 8 Earnings after the close Jul 25 $299 $1.29 Jul 26 1 Aug 1 $299 $0.82 2 nd call credit spread NOTE: Aug 15 didn t play. Only 12 or 20 short call delta and 20 out of range and 12 didn t get minimum credit Page 6

AMZN Above 20-Day Moving Average Sep 5, 2013 Page 7

AMZN Credit Spread Page 8

4-Day Iron Condor Page 14

Guidelines RUT Monday 10:30 am central, Width 10 wide, Minimum credit.80 Sell 10 delta call and put preferably Minimum.30 per side Only 7 or 11 delta available, use 7 delta as long as you can get.80 for entire Iron Condor Page 15

Guidelines Profit Plan: 70% of credit Max Loss : Credit of Iron Condor Down 75% of total credit end of day, take off Don t sell over 12 delta calls or puts period! Note: Paper Trading problem closing out trade with OTM options priced at.05? Philosophy: Don t Quit! Page 16

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