Nov 22, 2025 | Covered Call Exit Strategies, Exit Strategies, Investment Basics, Option Trading Basics, Options Calculations, Options Trade Execution, Stock Option Strategies
click ↑ 4 Featured When a covered call trade is expiring in-the-money (ITM), we may have an opportunity to retain the underlying shares by rolling-out or rolling-out-and-up. The latter is a more aggressive form of rolling. This article will scrutinize a series of...
Nov 15, 2025 | Fundamental Analysis, Investment Basics, Option Trading Basics, Options Calculations, Options Trade Execution, Stock Option Strategies
click ↑ 4 Featured When crafting our covered call trades to offer greater protection to the downside, we favor in-the-money (ITM) call strikes. These provide lower breakeven price points because ITM strikes consist of both time-value and intrinsic-value. At-the-money...
Nov 8, 2025 | Exit Strategies, Fundamental Analysis, Investment Basics, Option Trading Basics, Options Calculations, Options Trade Execution, Stock Option Strategies
click ↑ 4 Featured Portfolio overwriting is a covered call writing-like trading strategy. There are 2 distinctly defined goals: generating cash flow + retention underlying shares. Since deep out-of-the-money (OTM) strikes are used to align with the goal of share...
Nov 1, 2025 | Fundamental Analysis, Investment Basics, Option Trading Basics, Options Calculations, Options Trade Execution, Stock Option Strategies
click ↑ 4 Featured One of the more common oversights made by retail investors is their focus on premium dollar amounts rather than annualized returns. I consider this “dollar distraction” the shiny object that prevents us from focusing on the more...
Oct 25, 2025 | Investment Basics, Option Trading Basics, Options Calculations, Options Trade Execution, Put-selling, Stock Option Strategies
click ↑ 4 Featured When we structure our covered call trades in a defensive manner, we have 2 main goals in mind. We seek greater protection to the downside than traditional put trades and we strive for significant, although lower returns. We accomplish these goals by...
Oct 17, 2025 | Exchange-Traded Funds, Investment Basics, Option Trading Basics, Options Calculations, Options Trade Execution, Stock Option Strategies, Technical Analysis
click ↑ 4 Featured Retail investors may become enticed to use leveraged exchange-traded funds (ETFs) when writing covered calls or selling cash-secured puts. The reason is that the option returns are generally so much greater than traditional ETFs. This article will...
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