Do you adjust iron condor entries around expected volatility crush events such as earnings releases? What is your rule of thumb?

At VixShield, we trade 1DTE SPX Iron Condors exclusively, with signals firing daily at 3:10 PM CST after the SPX close via the 3:09 PM cascade. This methodology, developed by Russell Clark in the SPX Mastery series, is built for consistency rather than event-driven adjustments. We do not modify our entries around expected volatility crush events like earnings because our approach relies on the RSAi (Rapid Skew AI) and EDR (Expected Daily Range) to select strikes that match precise premium targets across three risk tiers: Conservative at $0.70 credit with approximately 90 percent win rate, Balanced at $1.15, and Aggressive at $1.60. These tiers are governed by VIX Risk Scaling, where current VIX at 17.95 keeps all tiers available since it sits below 20. Earnings-driven volatility crush primarily affects individual equities, but SPX as a broad index experiences far more muted effects, allowing our Set and Forget methodology to remain effective without active management or stop losses. When volatility spikes, as it can around macro events, our ALVH (Adaptive Layered VIX Hedge) provides protection through its three-layer system of short, medium, and long VIX calls in a 4/4/2 ratio per base unit. This hedge, combined with the Theta Time Shift recovery mechanism, turns potential setbacks into theta-driven wins by rolling threatened positions forward to 1-7 DTE on EDR above 0.94 percent or VIX above 16, then rolling back on VWAP pullbacks below that threshold. In backtests from 2015-2025, this temporal approach recovered 88 percent of losses without adding capital. Position sizing remains capped at 10 percent of account balance per trade, and we integrate PickMyTrade for auto-execution on the Conservative tier only. The Unlimited Cash System ties it all together, aiming to win nearly every day or at minimum not lose, delivering 82-84 percent win rates and 25-28 percent CAGR with max drawdowns of 10-12 percent. Rather than avoiding earnings, we let RSAi dynamically adjust strikes in real time based on skew, VIX momentum, and VWAP, completing in 253 milliseconds to hit exact credit targets. This keeps us in contango-friendly regimes like the current one where VIX holds at 17.95, below its 5-day MA of 18.58. All trading involves substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for all investors. For deeper implementation details on the Iron Condor Command, ALVH layering, and Theta Time Shift, explore the SPX Mastery resources and join the VixShield community for daily signals and live refinement sessions.