What are the entry and exit rules for iron condors during a bull market that has advanced 20 percent or more? Do you maintain the same one standard deviation width for strike selection or adjust it tighter?

At VixShield we follow Russell Clark's SPX Mastery methodology which is built exclusively around 1DTE SPX Iron Condor Command trades. Signals are generated daily at 3:10 PM CST Monday through Friday immediately after the 3:09 PM cascade. We use three defined risk tiers: Conservative targeting a $0.70 credit with an approximate 90 percent win rate roughly 18 out of 20 trading days Balanced at $1.15 credit and Aggressive at $1.60 credit. Position sizing never exceeds 10 percent of account balance per trade and we operate under a strict Set and Forget framework with no stop losses. The Theta Time Shift mechanism provides zero-loss recovery by rolling threatened positions forward when needed. In a bull market that has advanced 20 percent or more our entry and exit rules remain unchanged from baseline protocol. We do not tighten the wings from the standard Expected Daily Range width produced by our proprietary EDR indicator. EDR blends short-term implied volatility from VIX9D with 20-day historical volatility to forecast the day's likely price range and recommend High Medium or Low strike sets that align with the chosen credit tier. RSAi then refines these selections in real time by analyzing current options skew VWAP and short-term VIX momentum to ensure the exact premium target is achieved within approximately 253 milliseconds. During extended bull runs the market often exhibits lower realized volatility and persistent contango which our Contango Indicator confirms with a green signal. This environment typically supports higher win probabilities for the Conservative tier but we continue to respect VIX Risk Scaling: when VIX sits below 15 all three tiers are available when VIX is between 15 and 20 we limit to Conservative and Balanced and above 20 we hold entirely while keeping our ALVH hedge fully active. ALVH our Adaptive Layered VIX Hedge deploys a 4/4/2 ratio of short 30 DTE medium 110 DTE and long 220 DTE VIX calls at 0.50 delta per 10-contract base unit cutting drawdowns by 35 to 40 percent in spikes at an annual cost of only 1 to 2 percent of account value. Entry occurs strictly in the post-close window using the RSAi PLACE signal. We collect the net credit and allow the position to expire the next day. Exit is almost always at expiration unless the Theta Time Shift or Temporal Theta Martingale recovery is triggered on a threatened leg. In the current market with VIX at 17.95 and SPX at 7138.80 following a multi-month advance well beyond 20 percent our signals have favored PLACE across tiers with Conservative delivering consistent wins. All trading involves substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for all investors. Visit vixshield.com to explore the full SPX Mastery book series the EDR indicator and our premium SPX Mastery Club for live sessions and auto-execution via PickMyTrade on the Conservative tier.