Gordon Scott has been an active investor and technical analyst or 20+ years. He is a Chartered Market Technician (CMT). Vikki Velasquez is a researcher and writer who has managed, coordinated, and ...

Derivatives like options can be risky securities to trade especially if you don’t have a strategy. For many traders during the pandemic years, options were used to speculate on volatile stocks. But ...

Covered call ETFs monetize volatility to generate premium income, at the cost of tax drag and capped upside price ...

Covered calls are a common investment strategy. This strategy involves owning stocks and selling call options on them. By selling call options, investors earn extra income from option premiums while ...

I sell simple options of a Covered call and the Cash Covered Put, and will review the terms and all of my recent activity into 2018-19. Showing Fast Graphs-The Covered Call discussed will be on VF ...

Given the prolonged market uncertainty of the last 18 months, it’s no wonder that investors increasingly turn to covered calls to maximize equity income potential. Covered call ETFs continue to ...

Selling covered calls is an options trading strategy that helps you earn passive income using call options. This strategy works by selling call options against shares of a stock that you bought ...

Trading options can be a complicated process as a lot of options strategies are available and traders need to evaluate all of the possible routes ahead of executing a trade. As such, Schaeffer's are ...

We’ve seen that a PutWrite strategy using options on the Nasdaq-100 index (ticker NDX) can generate returns which are similar to the Nasdaq-100 index but which display substantially less risk as ...

Most traders understand what a covered call is, but far fewer understand when the strategy actually has an edge. In this clip from his latest YouTube instructional video, options strategist Rick ...

We recently wrote about options myths and a different way of trading. In this article, we break down myths around covered calls. These myths generally teach: (i) be out of the money; (ii) guess that ...

Long call and covered call approaches both involve call options, but they serve very different purposes in a portfolio. A long call is typically a speculative strategy, allowing investors to profit ...