Covered call writing, like most investment strategies, has a certain risk/reward profile relating to potential profits and losses. A profit and loss graph is a graphical representation of the potential […]

Profit And Loss Graphs For Covered Call Writing
Posted on September 14, 2013 by Alan Ellman in Covered Call Exit Strategies, Investment Basics, Option Trading Basics, Options Calculations, Stock Investing, Stock Option Strategies

Why Has Covered Call Writing Become So Popular? Ask The Baby Boomers!
Posted on August 17, 2013 by Alan Ellman in Investment Basics, Option Trading Basics, Stock Investing, Stock Option Strategies
I’ve been writing covered calls since the 1990s. None of my friends or relatives ever heard of this strategy and no one I knew was using it. Back then, there […]

A Review Of Fundamental Analysis for Covered Call Writing
Posted on August 10, 2013 by Alan Ellman in Fundamental Analysis, Investment Basics, Stock Investing
Fundamental analysis is our first step in evaluating securities for use in the covered call writing strategy. It is a method of evaluating a company’s stock by examining its financial […]

Unusual Options Activity: Speculation or Cheating?
Posted on July 27, 2013 by Alan Ellman in 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 […]

Option Approval Levels For Our Brokerage Accounts
Posted on July 13, 2013 by Alan Ellman in 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 […]

Stock Exchanges: The New Way To Calculate Trading Volume
Posted on June 29, 2013 by Alan Ellman in 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 […]

Using LEAPS Covered Calls to Increase Dividend Yield
Posted on May 4, 2013 by Alan Ellman in Option Trading Basics, Options Calculations, Stock Investing, Stock Option Strategies
Innovative covered call writers can develop ideas of implementing a strategy in unconventional ways. For example, we can invest in a money market or CD and perhaps not even beat the […]

Covered Call Writing – Fundamental and Technical Analysis: Earnings and Price Strength Analysis
Posted on March 23, 2013 by Alan Ellman in Fundamental Analysis, Investment Basics, Stock Investing
Successful covered call writing requires discipline and appropriate analysis specific for this great strategy. In the Blue Collar Investor (BCI) methodology we incorporate three major screening components before we even […]

Margin Accounts and Covered Call Writing
Posted on February 7, 2013 by Alan Ellman in Investment Basics, Option Trading Basics, Options Calculations, Stock Investing
Can covered call writing profits be leveraged to even higher levels using margin accounts? In real estate investing, the concept of leveraged investing is well known and documented in such […]

What Is Slippage And How Does It Impact Our Trading Success?
Posted on December 29, 2012 by Alan Ellman in Investment Basics, Option Trading Basics, Stock Investing, Stock Option Strategies
When studying investment basics, the term slippage has two applications. In general, it means having a trade executed at a price less favorable to the trader. Let’s look at the […]
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