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...
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