As safe a strategy that covered call writing is, there is some risk…the risk is in the stock, not in selling the option. That is why some investors who utilize this strategy buy protective puts to alleviate some of the risk. Definition of a protective put: A put option purchased for a stock that is already owned […]
Using Covered Call Options to Increase the Value of Your Stock
If you had a $1000.00 more today than you did yesterday, is your net worth +$1000.00 or does it depend where that cash came from (this is not one of my trick questions). What if you earned it at your job? Investment income? Found it on the street? Gift from grandma? Got lucky at the […]
The Option Buyer or the Option Seller: Which should you be?
You walk into your local stationery store and pull out a $20 bill. “Give me 20 state lottery tickets, please.” You can’t help but dream of all the riches that $20 investment will provide to you. After all, the grand prize is up to $25 million dollars. You even go so far as to compute […]
The Bernie Madoff Ponzi Scheme: A Validation of our Blue Collar Philosophy plus Tony C. checks in on Cramer
_________________________________________________________ Blue Collar Mission Statement 1– Become CEO of your own money 2- Become financially independent ___________________________________________________________ Never before have the convictions of the Blue Collar philosophy become more meaningful as they have this past week with the arrest of Bernie Madoff for what may become the biggest fraud in the history of Wall Street. Madoff, […]
Podcast
- 28. In the Money Covered Calls to Protect in Bear Markets
- 27. Using Mean Analyst rating MAR in the Stock Screening Process
- 26. Selling Cash Secured Puts to Lower Cost Basis
- 25. “Hitting a Double” with Procter & Gamble Covered Call Writing Exit Strategies
- 24. Using Covered Call Writing and Stock Dividends in Low Interest Rate Environments
- 23. Covered Call Writing with Weekly Options Portfolio Overwriting with Weeklys
- 22. A Covered Call Writing Alternative to Rolling Up in the Same Contract Month
- 21. When To Execute Our Option Selling Trades
- How to set up a covered call writing portfolio using stock selection, option & position management
- 20. Rolling Down When There is a General Market Decline
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