Wide bid-ask spreads on covered calls can silently erode 10-30% of your expected income, turning profitable trades into breakeven or worse.
Wide bid-ask spreads on covered calls can silently erode 10-30% of your expected income, turning profitable trades into breakeven or worse.
Implied volatility rank and percentile tell you whether option premiums are cheap or expensive relative to history, which directly affects how much in…
Reg T margin requires you to post 50% of the stock’s value to hold a covered call position, while portfolio margin calculates risk based on the actual…
Wash sale rules can trigger when you sell a stock at a loss and sell an in-the-money covered call within 30 days, potentially disallowing your loss de…
In 2008 I was trading my own account, making good money, feeling pretty smart about things. Then the ground opened up. I lost a bunch, and I faced a decisi…
Learn about Rolling Covered Calls During FOMC Weeks: A 5-Year Backtest on SPY Monthly Options with Mark Yegge’s 50 years of market experience.
I watched a man lose everything in 2008. Not a stranger on the news. Me.
Back in 2006 and 2007, I was trading my own account and doing pretty well. Then 2008 arrived, and I learned something the hard way about financial stocks a…
David V. was up 47% last year trading covered calls the boring way. In-the-money, conservative, sticking to the plan. He plays a lot of golf. Does not watc…
Back in 2008, I watched a lot of people get crushed because they had no system. They owned good companies, they were “diversified,” and they still lost 40-…
