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Using Weekly Covered Call Options to Avoid Earnings and Ex-Dividend Dates – March 31, 2025
When entering our covered call trades, we should always avoid the risk of earnings report dates. If we choose to hold the stock through that ER date, that’s okay,...
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How to Improve Results for a Rolling-Down Covered Call Trade – March 24, 2025
Rolling down is a frequently used covered call writing exit strategy to mitigate when share price declines. The original sold option is closed (bought back), while simultaneously opening another at...
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The Poor Man’s Covered Call: Can We Use ITM Covered Call Strikes? – March 17, 2025
What is the Poor Man’s Covered Call (PMCC)? This is a covered call writing-like strategy where LEAPS options are purchased instead of the actual stocks or ETFs and short calls are...
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Setting Up a Weekly CEO Portfolio – March 10, 2025
The CEO Strategy is a streamlined approach to covered call writing. It is an acronym for Combining Exchange-traded funds with stock Options. The methodology uses only the Select Sector SPDRs as underlying securities. These are exchange-traded...
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The Inverse Relationship Between Stock Price and Put Premium – March 3, 2025
When selling our cash-secured puts, understanding the correlation between stock price and our put premiums is critical to maximizing the success of our trades. For covered call writing, the relationship...
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Free Insurance for Our Covered Call Trades: Making the Case for ITM Strikes – February 24, 2025
There are 2 major ways to protect the investment inherent in our covered call trades. On way is buy protective puts and convert the covered call trade to a collar trade....
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Setting Up a Covered Call Trade: Step-by-Step Process + New Trade Video – February 17, 2025
Establishing our covered call trades require a sequential process including stock selection, option selection and position management. This article will analyze the procedures using a real-life example with Tenet...
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The 5 Most Common Mistakes Made by Covered Call Writers – February 10, 2025
Selling options (covered calls or cash-secured puts) is as much an art as it is a science. There are several principles that must be adhered to in order to...
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Can We Use Delta to Establish a Low End of a Trading Range for ITM Covered Calls? – February 3, 2025
Implied volatility (IV) can be used to establish approximate upper and lower ends of trading ranges for our covered call and put-selling trades. The BCI Expected Price Movement Calculator was designed for...
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Rolling-Out Our Covered Call Trades After Rolling-Down – January 27, 2025
Market volatility can cause our covered call trades to whipsaw up and down, much like a roller-coaster. In this article, a real-life trade with The Industrial Select Sector SPDR Fund...
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