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    Closed another 1dte SPY short Iron Condor for $5k profit this morning.

    You might remember me from last week when I did the same thing going into Friday: https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/1rado0f/1dte_iron_condor_for_an_8k_profit_to_end_a_week/

    Coming into this Monday I was planning to open a call credit spread 690/695 expiring Friday for about 0.93, but the Monday slide down to $681 on SPY happened before I could open and the play was no longer lucrative. Discussion here: https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/1rc0spc/opening_50x_700705_bear_call_spreads_on_spy/

    So, despite the risk, I opened 50x short Iron Condors with the inner wings at 680 and 690 when SPY was around 684. Why?

    Because the profit and risk lay in the put spread.

    I got lucky that SPY didn't fall below my 680 wing yesterday . I bet on it rebounding today because

    1. Max pain for SPY today is 685, pulling the price up.
    2. SOTU historically boosts SPY so long as there isn't heavy economic threats made during (big if).
    3. Expected beat on Consumer Confidence report, which makes no sense but there it is.

    This time I did the "right thing" and got out before expiry, buying back at 33% of original value by about 10:15am.

    I also bought 20x 685 calls for Friday when spy was aroj d 682, and those are currently up about 15%, but I plan to hold at least one more day and gamble on the State of the Union. Since my IC profit is locked I can treat the calls as house money.

    https://www.reddit.com/gallery/1rdjdbi

    Posted by smohyee

    15 Comments

    4. theRealLongJon on

      smart moves. thanks for sharing some strategies that are a little more intelligent than the usual yolo calls or puts.

    9. Bluecoregamming on

      Good job, now that you are actually getting consistent, this is the point where people will tell you to switch to SPX / XSP for the tax benefits. If you are at all confused just look at the delta it won’t steer you wrong. If you would sell a 20 delta spy call, you should sell a 20 delta xsp call.

    14. misterbluesky8 on

      You’re getting a lot of heat for this, and I don’t understand why. Thetagang does this kind of thing all the time. It’s a defined-risk trade that lets you profit off the 0-1DTE regards who are buying lottery tickets. 

      If I understand this correctly, you took $25K of risk on each wing and made $5K profit in one day. That’s a great result. 

      I think this sub should stop celebrating regards who lose money with terrible trades and start boosting people who are actually making money. Isn’t that why we’re here- to make money?

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