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…
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…
Recover from a bad covered call trade by classifying first, then applying the right roll. The three-bucket framework that protects income across years.
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…
I was sitting in a hotel lobby in Zurich during the 2008 meltdown, watching the Swiss franc rip higher while everything else fell off a cliff. My ADR posit…
Learn about covered call on commodities etf gold silver oil with Mark Yegge’s 50 years of market experience.
In late 2007 I was long a basket of steel names that had ripped from 2004 through the first half of the year. My covered-call premiums were fat, the accoun…
I was sitting at the kitchen table in the spring of 2008 staring at a brokerage statement that had just lost a third of its value. My wife walked by, glanc…
A covered call yield comparison across four asset classes. ETFs and blue chips for stability, REITs for stacked income, growth for yield boost.
In 2008 I watched my accounts melt 40% in six weeks. Same stocks I had been selling monthly calls against for years suddenly gapped through every strike I …
My broker in 1995 was a 60-year-old veteran who had never sold an option in his life. I was 19 and had been trading covered calls for two years through my …
