Jun 18, 2022 | Covered Call Exit Strategies, Exit Strategies, Investment Basics, Option Trading Basics, Options Calculations, Put-selling, Stock Option Strategies
How do we manage our trades after allowing exercise of a cash-secured put? This gameplan must be in place prior to entering the put trade. In this article, I will compare 2 strategy choices, writing a weekly covered call or implementing the stock repair strategy. I...
May 28, 2022 | Covered Call Exit Strategies, Exit Strategies, Investment Basics, Option Trading Basics, Options Calculations, Options Trade Execution
Rolling-up in the same contract month is generally not a covered call writing exit strategy implemented in our BCI methodology. One of our members shared with me a series of trades he executed with F where a 6-month call was written in August 2021 for a 2/18/2022...
May 14, 2022 | Covered Call Exit Strategies, Exit Strategies, Investment Basics, Option Trading Basics, Options Calculations, Options Trade Execution, Stock Option Strategies
When our covered call writing strikes are expiring in-the-money (ITM), and we want to retain the underlying shares for the next contract period, we can roll the option forward. This involves buying back the current short call(s) and selling the next month (or week...
May 7, 2022 | Covered Call Exit Strategies, Exit Strategies, Investment Basics, Option Trading Basics, Options Calculations, Options Trade Execution
When share price accelerates exponentially with our covered call writing stocks, the strike moves deeper in-the-money. Although the intrinsic-value component of the option premium rises, the time-value component approaches zero. This creates an opportunity to consider...
Apr 30, 2022 | Covered Call Exit Strategies, Exit Strategies, Investment Basics, Option Trading Basics, Options Calculations, Stock Option Strategies
When our covered call writing and put-selling trades start out much better than anticipated, Blue Collar Investors immediately evaluate our exit strategy arsenal to see if we can achieve even higher returns. On 11/12/2021, one of our premium members shared with me a...
Apr 23, 2022 | Covered Call Exit Strategies, Exit Strategies, Investment Basics, Option Trading Basics, Options Calculations, Stock Option Strategies
One of our covered call writing exit strategies is the mid-contract unwind (MCU) exit strategy. We generally implement this approach when share price accelerates significantly leaving the short call deep in-the-money (ITM). Breaking down the components of a...
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