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 […]
Why Has Covered Call Writing Become So Popular? Ask The Baby Boomers!
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
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?
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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 […]
Podcast
- 114. The Poor Man's Covered Call Selecting the Best LEAPS Strikes
- 113. How to Select the Best Strikes for Collar Trades
- 112. Using Covered call Options and Stock Dividends in Low Interest Rate Environments
- 111. Rolling Down on a Sharp Market Decline at the end of a Contract
- 110. Exit Strategies Are Important But Must Be Timed Properly
- 109. Delta and Strike Selection for Covered call Writing
- 108. Establishing Our Cost Basis in a Multi Step Managed Trade
- 107: Even and Odd Stock Splits Understanding Contract Adjustments
- 106. "Hitting a Double" with Procter & Gamble: A Covered Call Writing Exit Strategy
- 105. The Poor Man's Covered Call: Rolling Options
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