Is the following argument sound?
- Volatility is not price-agnostic: it tends to decrease when prices go up, and increases when prices go down, generally speaking.
- So being long (short) volatility has a slightly bearish (bullish) bias.
- Iron condors are always short vega, which means they are short volatility.
- // Therefore, iron condors are always implicitly bullish.
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