Iamitahuja Authors Yash Mehta

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As per SEBI report, 89% F&O traders are not able to earn profits in the market. There can be multiple reasons to it.

Sharing SIMPLE Index Option Selling Strategies that I personally use and less effort is required.

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Last strategy is my favourite.

1/ Short Straddle/Iron Condor for Expiry (Famous 916 Strategy):

Just create a Short Straddle/Iron Condor 100 points away in Nifty on expiry day.

For eg. if Nifty Spot is at 17610, then short 17700 CE and 17500 PE.

Iron Condor can be taken by buying 300 points away hedge.

Exit Strategy:
1. Exit all the Position if any of the options become ATM or near to that. For this, an alert at upper and lower levels can be placed.

2. If the above condition is not executed, then close the position manually by 3:15 PM.

For example: In Last Expiry, we have taken below Short Straddle Trade and same was shared live.

Stoploss was kept as 17450/17750 after considering the premium that we collected from


For Banknifty, short straddle can be created for 250/300 points away and for Finnifty 100 points away.

Trading these two indices is bit difficult as they are very volatile and can give wild swings during intraday and especially on expiry days.