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Using the Zero-Dollar Collar to Protect Greatly Appreciated Shares – August 18, 2025
We can use put options as a hedge against share price decline of our long stock positions. This may be particularly useful after exponential price acceleration, and we want...
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How to Set Up a Defensive Cash-Secured Put Trade in Challenging Market Conditions – August 11, 2025
Cash-Secured Put and covered call trades can be established as traditional, aggressive or defensive. In March 2025, there was market uncertainty regarding the imposition of multiple tariffs and their...
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How To Negotiate Better Option Prices Using The “Show or Fill Rule” – August 4, 2025
Covered call writers & sellers of cash-secured puts generate cash flow by selling options, leveraging elite-performing stocks and ETFs. Options prices are published in option chains in the form of bid-ask...
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Selling Calls & Puts with the Same Stock in Mixed Market Conditions – July 28, 2025
Covered call writing and selling cash-secured puts trades can be structured to be more aggressive (out-of-the-money-OTM) covered calls and slightly OTM cash-secured puts or to lean defensive (in-the-money- ITM) covered calls and...
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Option Greeks as They Apply to Covered Call Writing – July 14, 2025
The option Greeks are financial metrics that are used by traders to evaluate the risk of our option contracts as well as how option price changes as it related to the...
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A Real-Life Defensive Weekly Cash-Secured Put Trade with THC + A Sample “Alan Trade” Video – June 9, 2025
Cash-secured put trades can be crafted to be traditional, aggressive or defensive, depending on the degree the put strike is out-of-the-money (OTM). In our BCI methodology, we almost always use OTM put...
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A Real-Life Monthly Covered Call Trade with AVGO – June 2, 2025
Each week, BCI provides our premium members with a sample covered call writing or cash-secured put trade taken from one of Alan’s portfolios or from that of a member....
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Covered Call Writing Insurance Policies We Pay for and Those that are Free – May 12, 2025
Covered call writing trades can be crafted to be aggressive or defensive. Cautionary approaches include writing in-the-money (ITM) call strikes and adding protective puts to the covered call trades...
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Calculating Collar Trades Using the BCI Trade Management Calculator (TMC) – May 5, 2025
The Collar Strategy is a covered call writing-like strategy where a protective put is added to the trade, thereby establishing a floor and a ceiling with a maximum gain and a...
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Aggressive and Defensive Cash-Secured Put Trades – April 28, 2025
Much like our covered call writing trades, our cash-secured put trades can also be crafted to be aggressive or defensive. Factors to consider include overall market assessment, chart technical indicators,...
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