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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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Setting Up a Weekly CEO Portfolio – March 10, 2025
The CEO Strategy is a streamlined approach to covered call writing. It is an acronym for Combining Exchange-traded funds with stock Options. The methodology uses only the Select Sector SPDRs as underlying securities. These are exchange-traded...
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The Inverse Relationship Between Stock Price and Put Premium – March 3, 2025
When selling our cash-secured puts, understanding the correlation between stock price and our put premiums is critical to maximizing the success of our trades. For covered call writing, the relationship...
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