How to Sell Covered Calls to Create Portfolio Yield
With the Fed holding steady on interest rates, you need to get creative to find yield. One way to do it is to sell covered calls. Here's how it works.
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Covered Calls on Your Best Dividend Stocks
Want to squeeze more yield out of your dividend stocks? Trading covered calls on dividend stocks you already own is the way to go. Here's how it works.
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Using Options to Increase Your Portfolio Yield
There are two options strategies any investor can use to create yield that far exceeds traditional avenues: Covered Calls and Writing Puts.
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Cabot Options Trading Pro Strategies
Options trading can be tricky, so it helps to learn some important options trading strategies that can help maximize return and limit risk. Here are some of the flexible and powerful options strategies I use in my options trading advisories, Cabot Options Trader Cabot...
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An Options Trade Too Good to Be True
At last week's Cabot Wealth Summit, I presented an options trade that at least one attendee thought was too to be true. It's not! Here's how it works.
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Wall Street’s Best Dividend Stocks Daily Alert
Here’s a strategy for obtaining high yields using covered calls. The dividend yield is 7.63%, paid monthly.
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Is Nvidia Stock About to Crash?
Nvidia stock was one of the market's top performers in 2016. But there are early signs of a pullback in 2017. If you trade options, here's how to play it.
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Add More Yield to Your Best Dividend-Paying Stocks with Options
The S&P 500 is essentially unchanged since Thanksgiving 2014! While there have been short periods of volatility (in just the last two weeks, it’s been down 5% then up 5%!), the S&P 500 can’t seem to break through the 2,000–2,100 range. the...
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Volatility in Options Pricing at Earnings
Options prices often rise as traders buy volatility/insurance to hedge against big moves or the unexpected.
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Using Buy-Writes to Generate Income
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Using Buy-Writes to Generate Income
Double the Yield on Dividend Stocks!
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"Nothing in life is free!" Many of us learned that expression at an early age, and I strongly agree with it. If anyone promises me free I..
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Using Buy-Writes to Generate Income
If you had invested exclusively in the S&P 500 ETF (SPY) last year, you would have finished the year down 0.81%. But if you had applied the very basic options strategy called a Buy-Write, you would have easily beaten those results.
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Writing Options on Stock Trades
What should the average investor to do in a challenging market environment? My recommendation is ...
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Trading Covered Calls for Increased Income
A covered call is an options strategy whereby an investor holds a long position in a stock.
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Time to Book Some Gains?
For the first time in seemingly months, the market has a bit more negative tone. So should you book some gains on some of your winners?
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Nuveen Equity Premium Advantage Fund (JLA)
Options sound risky -- and incompatible with income investing. But writing covered calls (selling call options on stocks you own) is actually an options strategy that can generate extra income stocks you already own. The one downside is that you may be forced to sell stock...
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