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2014issue C048-9

Inverted iron-condor payoffs and misplaced reversal candles

A published profit/loss graph for a short iron condor was printed inverted relative to the accompanying option-income discussion. Editors issued a corrected payoff figure and, in the same correction set, restated hanging-man, hammer, and related candle locations so the captions match the extremes those prints are supposed to mark.

  • A published short-iron-condor profit/loss graph was printed inverted relative to the option-income discussion, and a corrected payoff figure was issued so readers could re-evaluate the intended profit and loss shape.
  • Editors treated the inverted graphic as a production error that did not change the written option-income argument, while still replacing the figure readers use to judge whether the structure is net short or net long volatility.
  • The same correction set restated that a hanging man sits at or near a market top and a hammer at or near a market bottom, rather than the reverse.
  • Editorial reading: an inverted income payoff or a reversal candle at the wrong extreme rewrites the market-regime fit and the signal under test, so the visual belongs to the strategy specification.
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The graphic is part of the specification

A published profit/loss graph for a short iron condor was printed inverted relative to the accompanying option-income discussion. Editors treated the inverted iron-condor graphic as a production error that did not change the written option-income argument. A corrected short-iron-condor payoff figure was issued so readers could re-evaluate the income structure’s intended profit and loss shape.

A short iron condor is a defined-risk, premium-collecting option structure whose payoff is profitable only while the underlying stays between two short strikes. An option income strategy is a rules-based approach that harvests option premium under a stated market-regime assumption rather than forecasting a directional breakout. A profit/loss graph is a diagram of payoff versus underlying price used to read whether an income structure is net short or net long volatility.

Editorial reading: invert that sketch and the same written rules now appear to describe a different volatility stance. The correction lets readers match the intended profit and loss shape to the income discussion. It does not rewrite the written argument, and it does not make the figure optional.

Reversal candles seated at the wrong extreme

The same correction set restated that a hanging-man candle is located at or near a market top rather than a bottom, and that a hammer candle is located at or near a market bottom rather than a top. A hanging man is a candlestick treated as a potential bearish reversal cue when it prints at or near a high. A hammer is a candlestick treated as a potential bullish reversal cue when it prints at or near a low.

Corrected candlestick captions labeled a dragonfly doji as bullish and a gravestone doji as bearish. A dragonfly doji is a long-lower-shadow doji commonly framed as a bullish exhaustion print. A gravestone doji is a long-upper-shadow doji commonly framed as a bearish exhaustion print. A shooting star after an advance was labeled bearish. A shooting star is a small-body candle with a long upper shadow after an advance, framed as a bearish reversal cue. Spinning tops were framed as possible trend-change prints in either direction. A spinning top is a small-body candle used as a possible trend-change alert in either direction.

Editorial reading: a reversal candle seated at the wrong extreme is a different signal from the one named in the text. The caption is part of the pattern specification a reader would take into a test.

Educational research material, not investment advice. Historical source context does not establish present-day performance.
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