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Jan 14, 2021 LEAP Covered Writes (Diagonal Spreads)
They use less capital but there are several risks...
Jan 8, 2021 Covered Calls For Beginners
Not sure where to start? Here's some basic lingo and a simple trade...
Jan 3, 2021 Improve Returns With Limit Orders
Use limit orders to buy and sell to improve your returns...
Jan 2, 2021 Selling Call Options For Income
Sell call options against your shares every week or month for income...
Dec 28, 2020 Call Options and the Ex-Dividend Date
Better to exercise a call option or sell it before the ex-dividend date?...
Dec 26, 2020 Weekly vs Monthly Covered Calls
Which is better, weekly or monthly, for covered call writing?...
Sep 13, 2018 Finding covered calls with technical analysis
Use Bollinger bands and key supply levels to identify opportunities...
Jul 16, 2018 Get Paid To Wait
Want to sell at a higher price? Get paid while you wait...
Apr 14, 2016 Low Payout Ratio Stocks
High yields and low payout ratios make for good dividend stocks...
Apr 9, 2015 Best Energy Stocks
How to find the best energy stocks...
Jan 6, 2015 Downside Protection Methods
In-the-money covered calls are a popular downside protection method...
Sep 2, 2014 Deep In The Money Covered Calls
Screening for deep in the money covered calls...
Apr 30, 2014 Weekly Options Screener
How to find weekly covered calls with our screener...
Jun 7, 2013 Investment Dictionary For Covered Calls
Guide for terms use in covered call investing...
May 30, 2013 Forum For Covered Call Questions And Trade Ideas
Recommended discussion forum for covered call investing...
May 29, 2013 Top 10 Ways To Lose Money With Covered Calls
Making money is easy. But, losing it is the hard part...
Apr 11, 2013 Dividend Capture Without Earnings Risk
A quick way to remove risk from your dividend capture strategy...
Feb 7, 2013 Time Premium In Options
How to calculate time premium for ITM and OTM options...
Feb 1, 2013 Mini Options Are Coming
Staring in March you can trade 10-share mini option contracts...
Jan 30, 2013 Will I Be Assigned?
If a stock closes near the strike price on expiration day, will assignment occur?
May 13, 2012 Early Exercise Of Call Options
For dividend paying stocks, sometimes early exercise makes sense...
Apr 15, 2012 Naked Put vs. Covered Call
Which is better: selling a naked put or writing a covered call...
Jan 25, 2012 Covered Call Option Screener
Example filter settings for a covered call screen...
Jan 11, 2012 Writing Covered Calls For Consistent Profits
Patience is a virtue when it comes to income investing...
Jan 9, 2012 Option Hedging With Covered Calls
Two ways to hedge your portfolio: buy puts or sell calls...
Dec 21, 2011 Passive Income
Earn money while you sleep...
Nov 4, 2011 Covered Call Strategies
Three different strategies for covered call writing...
Nov 2, 2011 Writing A Covered Call
Covered call writing 101: Your first covered call...
Oct 28, 2011 Example Portfolio
How to construct a diversified portfolio of covered calls...
Oct 14, 2011 Born To Sell Videos
Strategy and product demonstration videos for Born To Sell...
Sep 22, 2011 Compound Interest
1% per month can make you rich given enough time...
Sep 21, 2011 Time Decay In Options
Deciding which month to write is often a function of time decay...
Aug 30, 2011 Successful Income Investing
Tips when investing primarily for income...
Apr 19, 2011 Will You Be Assigned At Option Expiration?
Your stock closes at the money on expiration day. Will you be assigned?
Dec 27, 2010 Covered Call Calculator
A good covered call calculator will help you decide when to roll...
Nov 8, 2010 Covered Calls Strategy
You can make money with covered calls even if the stock drops...
Oct 19, 2010 In The Money Covered Calls
Selling in the money covered calls is a popular strategy for monthly income...
Sep 6, 2010 How To Write A Covered Call
Never done a covered call before? Don't worry; it's easy. Here are step by step instructions (with a live example trade) on how to make money with covered calls...