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Can We Make Money Selling Options in a Confirmed Bear Market? / New Video
click ↑ 4 Featured Covered call writers and put sellers frequently inquire about generating positive cash flow when the market crashes or in confirmed bear markets as we had in 2008 (real estate crash) and in 2022 (COVID-related crash). Over the years, I have written...
How Our Option Prices are Determined
click ↑ 4 Featured When we sell covered calls or cash-secured puts, we access option-chains to determine the value of the premiums we are selling. This article will highlight the factors that determine these prices and compare them to the prices generated by option...
BCI PODCAST 133: Rolling Our Covered Call Trades Out And Up Means Adding Cash to Our Positions
Watch Video: One of the covered call writing exit strategy opportunities available to us is rolling the option. When we roll out-and-up, there is an intrinsic-value cost-to-close. This means we must have additional cash in our brokerage accounts to have the...
How to Use the CEO Strategy with Inverse ETFs in Extreme Bear Markets
click ↑ 4 Featured The CEO Strategy is a covered call writing-like strategy, a streamlined approach to covered call writing. It is an acronym for Combining ETFs with Stock Options. It involves using only the 11 Select Sector SPDRs as underlying considerations and...
Selling Weekly Covered Calls Using the CEO Strategy
click ↑ 4 Featured The CEO Strategy (Combining Exchange-traded funds with stock Options) is a covered call writing-like strategy where the only underlying securities considered are the 11 Select Sector SPDRs. These are ETFs that divide the S&P 500 into 11...
BCI PODCAST 132: Selecting the Best ITM Strikes for Covered Call Writing
Watch Video: When writing covered calls, using in-the-money strikes will give us greater protection to the downside than at-the-money or out-of-the-money strikes. If we decide to take a defensive covered call writing position, which in-the-money strike should we...
Executing Your First Covered Call Trade
click ↑ 4 Featured Option trading and covered call writing, in particular, have become increasingly popular over the past several years. As our membership has been growing more than ever, we have a large number of Blue Collar Investors who are relatively new to the...
Bullish & Bearish Covered Call Trade Executions When Selling Multiple Contracts on the Same Stock
click ↑ 4 Featured When selling covered calls or cash-secured puts, we must be appropriately diversified, as well as allocating a similar amount of cash per position. This will protect our portfolios from significant price decline in 1 or 2 of our positions. When we...
Why Wasn’t My Deep In-The-Money Covered Call Exercised?
click ↑ 4 Featured When we write covered calls, our expectation is that if the strike expires in-the-money (ITM), even by $0.01, our shares will be sold at the strike price as a result of option exercise. We check our brokerage accounts the Saturday after expiration...
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- 126. Analyzing the Status of a Rolling-Down Trade
- 124. Dividends and After-Hours News Causing Exercise of OTM Call Strikes
- 123. Implied Volatility, IV Rank and IV Percentile Defined and Practical Applications
- BCI PODCAST 122: Should I Roll-Out My Deep In-The-Money Call Option Mid-Contract?
- BCI PODCAST 121: What is a SPAC (Special Purpose Acquisition Company)?
- 120. Using the Nasdaq-100 Volatility Index (VOLQ) in Covered Call Writing Decisions
- 119. Establishing Our Cost-Basis for Long-Term Holdings
- 118. Adjusting Our Portfolio Mix to Achieve Diversification and Cash Allocation
- 117. When a Covered Call Strike Moves $1000.00 In-The-Money
- 116. How to Execute a Covered Call Trade with a Buy/Write Combination Form
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