Covered call writing obligates us to sell our shares to the option buyer at any time up to 4PM ET on expiration Friday should the buyer choose to exercise those options. […]
Early Exercise: I Don’t Want To Sell My AAPL Shares
Posted on March 15, 2014 by Alan Ellman in Covered Call Exit Strategies, Investment Basics, Option Trading Basics, Options Calculations, Stock Option Strategies
Managing Covered Call Trades While Working A Full-Time Job
Posted on March 8, 2014 by Alan Ellman in Covered Call Exit Strategies, Investment Basics, Option Trading Basics, Options Trade Execution, Stock Option Strategies
Covered call writing is a popular and potentially highly rewarding strategy geared to retail investors. But most blue collar investors work 9-5 jobs and managing investment positions can be challenging […]
Achieving The Highest Covered Call Writing Returns Using The Blackjack Analogy
Posted on March 1, 2014 by Alan Ellman in Investment Basics, Option Trading Basics, Options Calculations, Stock Option Strategies
Covered call writers and all investors using stock options strategies have one thing in common: we all want to achieve the highest possible returns within the framework of our own […]
Mini Options: The Impact Of Commissions And Liquidity On Final Returns
Posted on February 22, 2014 by Alan Ellman in Investment Basics, Option Trading Basics, Options Calculations, Stock Option Strategies
Our stock options strategies have a new product to consider: mini options. These options have a deliverable 10 shares of underlying security instead of the traditional 100 shares. The options […]
Selecting A Specific Strike Price For Our Covered Call Positions
Posted on February 15, 2014 by Alan Ellman in Investment Basics, Option Trading Basics, Options Calculations, Stock Option Strategies
We must master strike price selection to maximize our covered call writing returns. In our BCI methodology, strike price selection is ultimately determined after our careful stock screening analysis and […]
Real Life Covered Call Trade With PRLB
Posted on February 8, 2014 by Alan Ellman in Covered Call Exit Strategies, Investment Basics, Option Trading Basics, Options Calculations, Stock Option Strategies
Part of our covered call writing education involves looking back on both successful and unsuccessful trades and learning from them. A few months ago I shared with a premium member […]
Implied Volatility And Our Premium Exchange-Traded Funds (ETF) Report
Posted on February 1, 2014 by Alan Ellman in Investment Basics, Option Trading Basics, Stock Option Strategies
Our study of option trading basics and stock option strategies involves an analysis of implied volatility. This is the market’s forecast of the underlying security’s volatility as implied by the […]
Rolling Out And Up To Capture Share Appreciation: A Good Idea?
Posted on January 25, 2014 by Alan Ellman in Covered Call Exit Strategies, Option Trading Basics, Options Calculations, Stock Option Strategies
Covered call writing has some drawbacks as do all investment strategies. Profit limitation by the strike price is one such disadvantage. How do we manage a situation where the price […]
Earnings Reports And Covered Call Writing In Our BCI Methodology
Posted on January 18, 2014 by Alan Ellman in Investment Basics, Option Trading Basics, Stock Option Strategies
In our BCI methodology, our covered call writing strategy has several guidelines and one rule. The rule is to never sell a covered call option when there is an upcoming […]
When Strike Prices Disappear: Contract Adjustments
Posted on January 11, 2014 by Alan Ellman in Investment Basics, Option Trading Basics, Options Calculations, Options Trade Execution
Stock options are contracts with terms that can change prior to expiration. Mergers, acquisitions, special dividends and stock splits are some of the events that may necessitate the change in […]
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