Aug 24, 2024 | Exchange-Traded Funds, Investment Basics, Option Trading Basics, Options Calculations, Options Trade Execution, Stock Option Strategies
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...
Aug 17, 2024 | Covered Call Exit Strategies, Exit Strategies, Investment Basics, Option Trading Basics, Options Calculations, Options Trade Execution, Stock Option Strategies
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...
Aug 10, 2024 | Investment Basics, Option Trading Basics, Options Calculations, Options Trade Execution, Stock Option Strategies
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...
Aug 3, 2024 | Fundamental Analysis, Investment Basics, Option Trading Basics, Options Calculations, Options Trade Execution, Stock Option Strategies
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...
Jul 20, 2024 | Investment Basics, Option Trading Basics, Options Calculations, Options Trade Execution, Stock Option Strategies
click ↑ 4 Featured Portfolio overwriting is a covered call writing-like strategy seeking to both generate cash flow and retain the underlying shares. Share retention may be motivated by our bullish long-term assessment of the security and/or concern for negative...
Jul 13, 2024 | Covered Call Exit Strategies, Exit Strategies, Investment Basics, Option Trading Basics, Options Calculations, Options Trade Execution, Stock Option Strategies
click ↑ 4 Featured Covered call writers will frequently find themselves in a position where the short call is expiring in-the-money (ITM), while still wanting to use the same underlying shares for the next contract cycle. How should this be managed? 3-approaches...
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