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Aggressive and Defensive Cash-Secured Put Trades
click ↑ 4 Featured Much like our covered call writing trades, our cash-secured put trades can also be crafted to be aggressive or defensive. Factors to consider include overall market assessment, chart technical indicators, personal risk tolerance and initial...
Analyzing and Learning from A Weekly Cash-Secured Put Trade
click ↑ 4 Featured Prior to executing our cash-secured put trades, we must establish our initial time-value return goal range. This will lead us to the most appropriate strike. This article will focus on a real-life trade with Marvel Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: MRVL),...
BCI PODCAST 147: Best Technology ETFs for Our Option-Selling Portfolios
When seeking have a well-diversified quality technology presence in our option-selling portfolios, we can turn to exchange-traded funds. This podcast will compare and evaluate 2 such ETFs, XLK and QQQ. Topics included are top-10 holdings of each security, a comparison...
What is Covered Call Writing Time-Value Cost-To-Close?
click ↑ 4 Featured The success of our covered call writing trades is, to a great extent, dependent on our position management skill set. One of the strategies in our exit strategy arsenal is the mid-contract unwind exit strategy (MCU). WE may close both legs of the...
Evaluating a 1-Week Cash-Secured Put Trade with NVDA
click ↑ 4 Featured Cash-secured put and covered call writing trades can be winning or losing trades. When executed and managed properly, we will have many more winners than losers. Some trades will offer the opportunity to initiate exit strategy trade adjustments. In...
BCI PODCAST 146: Explaining “Bought-Up” Value When Rolling a Covered Call Out-And-Up
Rolling our covered call trades out-and-up is a frequently used exit strategy. The calculations are a bit complicated, and this podcast was produced to explain the breakdown of the intrinsic-value and time-value components of our option premiums. The BCI term,...
Using Weekly Covered Call Options to Avoid Earnings and Ex-Dividend Dates
click ↑ 4 Featured 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, but don’t cap the upside with a covered call. If one of our strategy objectives is to...
How to Improve Results for a Rolling-Down Covered Call Trade
click ↑ 4 Featured 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 a lower strike in the same contract cycle. When...
BCI PODCAST 145: Should Good News Discourage Us from Entering a Covered Call Trade?
Should a gap-up in price cause us to avoid a stock because "it's had its run-up"? What about a double gap-up? A real-life example is used with AMAT to make a case that in many gap-up scenarios, we should consider embracing, rather than rejecting that security,...
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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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