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BCI PODCAST 114 The Poor Man’s Covered Call Selecting the Best LEAPS Strikes

Watch Video: Listen To Audio Version: When initiating our PMCC trades, we must make sure the long and short call strikes meet our specific initial trade structuring formula. This equation […]

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Ask Alan #212 How Do I Avoid Covered Call Exercise When I Want to Retain Shares?

———- Covered call writing obligates the option seller to sell their shares at the strike price by the expiration date. There are times when we may want to avoid having […]

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BCI PODCAST 105: The Poor Man’s Covered Call: Rolling Options

Watch Video: Listen To Audio Version: Exit strategies are critical to our overall option-trading success. This podcast will detail how to roll options both up and down when using the […]

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Ask Alan 195: Will the Upcoming Dividend Cause My Shares to Be Sold?

Alan answers a question posed by Elliot, who asks: Hi Alan, Hi Alan, I bought SBLK and sold the 3/18/2022 $29.00 call. The stock closed today (2/26) at $31.76 and […]

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Adjusting Our Portfolio Mix to Achieve Diversification and Cash Allocation

To decrease portfolio risk for our covered call writing and put-selling portfolios we must be well diversified and allocate a similar amount of cash per position. The allotment of cash […]

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Poor Man’s Covered Call: Selecting the Best LEAPS Strike

The Poor Man’s Covered Call (PMCC) is a covered call writing-like strategy where deep in-the-money LEAPS options are used in lieu of long stock positions. Short-term out-of-the-money call options are […]

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Creating a Portfolio of Weekly Cash-Secured Puts

Selling cash-secured puts is a strategy similar to, but not precisely the same, as covered call writing. In February 2020, Chevy wrote to me asking for an article or video […]

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BCI PODCAST 15. Strike Selection When Selling Puts

Watch Video: Listen To Audio Version: Identifying strategy goals, initial time-value return goal ranges, market assessment and technical analysis all go into strike price selection when selling cash-secured puts. A […]

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BCI PODCAST 13. Adding a Short Put To a Collar Trade

Watch Video: Listen To Audio Version: When we add a protective put to a covered call trade we now have a collar trade. Since that protective put costs us money, […]

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Automating the 20%/10% Guidelines

Position management is the 3rd required skill for achieving the highest level of option-selling success. One of the most important of the BCI protocols for covered call writing are the […]

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