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BCI PODCAST 113: How to Select the Best Strikes for Collar Trades

BCI PODCAST 113: How to Select the Best Strikes for Collar Trades

Nov 3, 2023 | Podcasts

Watch Video: Listen To Audio Version: Collar trades are covered call writing trades with a protective put. This podcast will discuss strike selection, calculations and rationale for structuring our collar collar trades. The BCI Collar Calculator will manage the...
BCI PODCAST 113: How to Select the Best Strikes for Collar Trades

BCI PODCAST 112: Using Covered Call Options and Stock Dividends in Low Interest Rate 

Oct 4, 2023 | Podcasts

Watch Video: Listen To Audio Version: This podcast will evaluate the best-performing Dow 30 stocks and craft a 3-income strategy which incorporates share appreciation, option premium and dividend capture. Methodology on stock selection, option selection and risk...
BCI PODCAST 113: How to Select the Best Strikes for Collar Trades

BCI PODCAST 111: Rolling Down on a Sharp Market Decline at the end of a Contract

Sep 28, 2023 | Podcasts

Watch Video: Listen To Audio Version: Exit strategies are critical to achieving the highest degree of trading success. This podcast will highlight a trade executed with XLV where there was an 1800 point drop in the Dow 30. It demonstrates how to mitigate losses using...
BCI PODCAST 113: How to Select the Best Strikes for Collar Trades

BCI PODCAST 110: Exit Strategies Are Important But Must Be Timed Properly

Sep 6, 2023 | Podcasts

Watch Video: Listen To Audio Version: In this podcast, a series of real-life covered call writing trades will be analyzed with MGM. Initial trade structuring, exit strategy implementation and trade timing are key components of this podcast. ——


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BCI PODCAST 113: How to Select the Best Strikes for Collar Trades

BCI PODCAST 109: Delta and Strike Selection for Covered call Writing

Aug 30, 2023 | Podcasts

Watch Video: Listen To Audio Version: Should our covered call writing strikes be determined by the delta of those strikes? This podcast will make a case that our strikes should be based and our strategy initial return goals, personal risk-tolerance and overall market...
BCI PODCAST 113: How to Select the Best Strikes for Collar Trades

BCI PODCAST 108 Establishing Our Cost-Basis in a Multi-Step Managed Trade

Aug 2, 2023 | Podcasts

Watch Video: Listen To Audio Version: Using the correct cost-basis statistic is critical to our option-selling success. This podcast will highlight the appropriate cost-basis when initiating a covered call writing trade, when managing that trade and after closing all...
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