Back in 2007, I was trading my own account and doing pretty well. Then 2008 hit, and I learned something that changed everything. I had positions that shou…
Back in 2007, I was trading my own account and doing pretty well. Then 2008 hit, and I learned something that changed everything. I had positions that shou…
Learn about The 0.30 Delta Trap: Why Your Covered Calls Underperform in Low Volatility Regimes with Mark Yegge’s 50 years of market experience.
I was eighteen when I taught my sixty-year-old stockbroker how to sell a covered call.
I started layering covered calls over pharma growth names in the spring of 2009, right after the market had fallen out of bed. The decision came out of nec…
I lost a tidy stack in 2008. I was long a basket of retail names right before the world ended. When the dust settled I had two choices: quit or build a sys…
In 2008 I had a fat position in Intel. The stock had doubled from 2006 into 2007, I was patting myself on the back, and then the floor fell out. By March 2…
I still remember the Sunday night in March 2020 when I placed a short weekly call against a mid-cap biotech name I had been holding since the previous Nove…
I still remember the day in September 2008 when my account balance dropped thirty percent in a week. I had spent the previous year selling covered calls on…
Back in 2008 I had a Tesla-sized hole in my account. Not because Tesla existed yet, but because I let a covered call expire exactly in-the-money and woke u…
In the spring of 2007 I was feeling pretty good about myself. My account had doubled in fourteen months and I was selling covered calls the way most people…
