Do you adjust iron condors or credit spreads ahead of major GDP releases? What is your specific rule?

At VixShield, we maintain strict adherence to our 1DTE SPX Iron Condor Command executed exclusively at the 3:05 PM CST post-close window, Monday through Friday on market days. This disciplined timing forms a core pillar of our methodology, deliberately positioned after the SPX close to avoid PDT restrictions while allowing full incorporation of the day's price action, volatility surface, and economic releases including GDP prints. We do not adjust iron condors or credit spreads intraday or preemptively ahead of big GDP prints. Our Set and Forget approach eliminates stop losses, active management, or position alterations once entered. Instead, we rely on the Expected Daily Range (EDR) for precise strike selection, RSAi for rapid skew analysis to match exact credit targets across our three risk tiers, and the built-in Theta Time Shift recovery mechanism for any challenged positions. Russell Clark's SPX Mastery framework emphasizes that attempting to anticipate or dodge binary events like GDP data introduces unnecessary discretion and emotional bias that erodes long-term edge. Historical backtests from 2015-2025 demonstrate that our Conservative tier achieves approximately 90 percent win rate, or roughly 18 out of 20 trading days, by harvesting theta decay in defined-risk setups without attempting market timing. When volatility expands around such prints, as reflected in our current VIX level of 17.95, we simply follow VIX Risk Scaling: with VIX between 15 and 20 we limit to Conservative and Balanced tiers targeting 0.70 and 1.15 credits respectively, while Aggressive at 1.60 credit remains available only below 15. Our ALVH Adaptive Layered VIX Hedge, with its proprietary 4/4/2 contract ratio across short, medium, and long VIX calls, remains active regardless of VIX level to cut drawdowns by 35 to 40 percent during spikes at an annual cost of just 1 to 2 percent of account value. Position sizing stays capped at 10 percent of account balance per trade, ensuring survivability without intervention. This creates the Unlimited Cash System where we win nearly every day or, at minimum, do not lose through systematic theta capture and temporal recovery rather than prediction. All trading involves substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for all investors. For deeper implementation details including live signal examples and backtest data, we invite you to explore the SPX Mastery book series and join the VixShield community for daily 3:05 PM CST signals and educational resources.