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Unusual Options Activity: Speculation or Cheating?

Unusual Options Activity: Speculation or Cheating?

Jul 27, 2013 | Investment Basics, Option Trading Basics, Stock Investing, Stock Option Strategies

Covered call writers are average retail investors looking to generate monthly cash flow in small but consistent increments and then compounding those profits. In time, it could lead to financial independence. Other investors look to make a lot of money in a short time...
Option Approval Levels For Our Brokerage Accounts

Option Approval Levels For Our Brokerage Accounts

Jul 13, 2013 | Investment Basics, Option Trading Basics, Options Trade Execution, Stock Investing, Stock Option Strategies

Covered call writing along with all other stock and option strategies require us to open a brokerage account. This process will take more than a simple phone call. All brokerages will require us to fill out an options approval form as designed by its compliance...
Analyzing The Time Value Of In-The-Money Strikes

Analyzing The Time Value Of In-The-Money Strikes

Jul 6, 2013 | Investment Basics, Option Trading Basics, Options Calculations

Maximizing covered call writing profits requires us to master strike price selection. Very few covered call writers outside the BCI community use in-the-money strikes and, as a result, do not achieve the results that we do. Recently, a few BCI members sent me emails...
Stock Exchanges: The New Way To Calculate Trading Volume

Stock Exchanges: The New Way To Calculate Trading Volume

Jun 29, 2013 | Investment Basics, Stock Investing

In the BCI methodology for covered call writing, we require an average minimum daily trading volume for the underlying security of 250,000 shares or more. This is important because it increases the likelihood of favorable trade execution pricing and decreases the...
The CBOE BuyWrite Index (BXM) vs. The BCI System

The CBOE BuyWrite Index (BXM) vs. The BCI System

Jun 22, 2013 | Investment Basics, Option Trading Basics, Stock Option Strategies

Several studies have been undertaken to determine the effectiveness of the covered call writing strategy. I believe that it is important to evaluate the parameters that are used as well as how they are employed in these evaluations to assess the accuracy of the...
Special 1- Time Cash Dividends and Our Covered Call Positions

Special 1- Time Cash Dividends and Our Covered Call Positions

Jun 15, 2013 | Investment Basics, Option Trading Basics, Options Calculations, Stock Option Strategies

Every so often we will see a company declare a “special dividend” which is separate from the typical recurring dividend cycle, if there is one. It is frequently a reflection of exceptionally strong earnings and/or a company with a large cash balance. It is a positive...
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