RUT Iron Condor - Dynamic Exit - 38 DTE - 8 Delta Continued

This post is a continuation of the prior post.  I will show the backtest results for dynamic exits of 38 days-to-expiration (DTE) Iron Condors (IC), with 8 delta short strikes, with different profit and loss exits as a percentage of the initial credit.

For some background on how these results are presented, please review the overview and prior 38 DTE posts at:

• RUT Iron Condor - Dynamic Exit Overview - 80 DTE
• RUT Iron Condor - Dynamic Exit Overview - 66 DTE
• RUT Iron Condor - Dynamic Exit - 38 DTE - 8 Delta

As discussed in the two overview posts, we will look at the same three Iron Condor starting structures that have been backtested on this blog: Standard (STD), Delta Neutral (DN), and Extra Long Put (EL).

Also as discussed in the two overview posts, we will only look at the Initial Credit % Profit/Loss Exit on each of these three starting structures:

• 0.6:0.9 - This is an Initial Credit % Profit/Loss Exit. Trades using this exit strategy either exit at 8 DTE OR if the trade has a profit of 90% of its initial credit OR if the trade has a loss of 60% of its initial credit.  This can also be thought of as risk:reward; risking 60% to make 90%.

This equity curve chart below should look very similar to the equity curves in my prior posts.  In the chart below, all of the STD IC versions have blue equity curves, all of the DN IC versions have green equity curves, and all of the EL IC versions have red equity curves.  The solid lines represent the equity curves for the "no touch" version, while the dashed lines represent the equity curves for the dynamically exited versions.

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The versions tested will close at either 8 DTE or a profit of 90% of the initial credit received.  The parameters that vary are the risk or loss amount.  The trades are closed for a loss if the loss is either 60%, 70%, or 80% of the initial credit received.  There is quite a bit of congestion at the right side of the chart, with the non-compounded profits ranging from approximately 250% to 350%.

The details associated with each of the starting structure backtests can be found in the posts below:

• Standard Iron Condor - RUT - 38 DTE
• Delta Neutral Iron Condor - RUT - 38 DTE
• Extra Long Put Iron Condor - RUT - 38 DTE

In the next post I will show the results for the 38 DTE, 12 delta short strike IC.

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