HowardCohodas
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Why would rolling your positions result in more spreads? Shouldn't you be closing out?
Howard, feel free to ignore my questions and answer martinghoul's. They are always more important 😀
Each of you has a different, but none-the-less interesting way of looking at what I'm doing. I think you both add something valuable to the dialog.
By rolling I mean that I close a spread that has neared it's maximum profit (80%+) and open a new one using the same criteria I used for the original one. Thus it will be closer to the underlying instrument price. PoT has a days-to-expiration component. This lets me use the same quarantined funds to gain another profit. Using this technique, I have been able to get 50%+ out of series rather than the targeted 10%. Furthermore, in all but one of the Iron Condors that had a loosing spread, this technique made the Iron Condor profitable overall.