Iron Condors Made Simple: Two Credit Spreads, One Defined-Risk Trade — How to Get Paid When the Market Goes Nowhere (The Defined-Risk Options Library)

Mattson, Eric

ISBN 13: 9798184890708

Published by Independently published, 2026

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Iron Condors Made Simple: Two Credit Spreads, One Defined-Risk Trade ? How to Get Paid When the Market Goes Nowhere (The Defined-Risk Options Library)
• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication Date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798184890708
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Some of the best trades happen when the market does nothing at all.

The iron condor is how you get paid for that. Sell a bull put spread below the market and a bear call spread above it — same underlying, same expiration — and you've fenced in a range you expect the price to stay inside. You collect premium on both sides, your maximum loss is capped and known before you enter, and you win as long as the market drifts, chops, or simply stalls.

Iron Condors Made Simple teaches this four-legged, defined-risk income trade in plain English — no hype, no "weekly paycheck" fantasies, just the real mechanics and the real math.

Inside you'll learn how to:

• Build an iron condor leg by leg, and read its table-top payoff
• Calculate your true max profit, max loss, two breakevens, and profit zone
• See why you collect two credits but risk only one width
• Choose your range, your width, and your expiration to match the market
• Read implied volatility to enter when premium is rich — and sit out when it isn't
• Manage a two-sided trade: take profits, defend a tested wing, and roll with rules
• Size the deceptively "safe" condor so the rare loss stays survivable

With plain-English explanations, payoff diagrams, real worked examples, and a one-page checklist you can use on your next trade, this is the neutral-market income guide that finally makes the iron condor simple.

Book 4 of The Defined-Risk Options Library. Reads great on its own — and completes the credit engine you started in Book 1, Credit Spreads Made Simple.