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…
Poor man’s covered call vs covered call: capital, dividends, durability, and the right strategy for retirement income versus capital efficiency.
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.
How to backtest a covered call strategy before risking real capital. Five-step framework, realistic frictions, and the metrics that separate spreadsheet wins from live results.
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…
Covered call diversification rules that turn a covered call book into a true income portfolio. How many tickers, sized how, across how many sectors.
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…
