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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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Laddering Covered Call Strikes with CMG – May 27, 2025
When we sell multiple covered call or cash-secured put contracts, we can use numerous strikes to enhance the diversification process. In this article, I will use a real-life example...
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Using In-The-Money Covered Calls Around Ex-Dividend Dates – May 19, 2025
A covered call writing strategy commonly used by hedge funds involves using ITM covered call strikes which expire immediately after an ex-dividend date. This may be appropriate only if...
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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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Analyzing and Learning from A Weekly Cash-Secured Put Trade – April 21, 2025
Prior to executing our cash-secured put trades, we must establish our initial time-value return goal range. This will lead us to the most appropriate strike. This article will focus...
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What is Covered Call Writing Time-Value Cost-To-Close? – April 14, 2025
The success of our covered call writing trades is, to a great extent, dependent on our position management skill set. One of the strategies in our exit strategy arsenal is the mid-contract...
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Evaluating a 1-Week Cash-Secured Put Trade with NVDA – April 7, 2025
Cash-secured put and covered call writing trades can be winning or losing trades. When executed and managed properly, we will have many more winners than losers. Some trades will...
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Using Weekly Covered Call Options to Avoid Earnings and Ex-Dividend Dates – March 31, 2025
When entering our covered call trades, we should always avoid the risk of earnings report dates. If we choose to hold the stock through that ER date, that’s okay,...
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