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Executing A Covered Call Trade: A Step By Step Look At Our Broker Statement 24 Aug 2013 | 05:10 pm
Executing a covered call trade and understanding the accounting procedures on our online discount broker statements can be confusing to the new option trader. I have recently received a few emails reg...
Ask Alan – Options Chain With Mixed Signals 22 Aug 2013 | 12:24 am
Alan answers a question shared by Perri from Rockville, MD who asks: “I noticed that when a stock is bullish the change for the in-the-money call option premiums is usually positive and high (increas...
Why Has Covered Call Writing Become So Popular? Ask The Baby Boomers! 17 Aug 2013 | 10:03 am
I’ve been writing covered calls since the 1990s. None of my friends or relatives ever heard of this strategy and no one I knew was using it. Back then, there were very few books on the subject and ave...
Ask Alan – How to Trade Covered Calls in Bear Market Environments 15 Aug 2013 | 02:46 am
Alan answers a question shared by Steve from Humble, Texas who asks: “Right at the June expiration the market entered a slight correction. The IBD Big Picture changed to Market in Correction.” IBD sa...
A Review Of Fundamental Analysis for Covered Call Writing 10 Aug 2013 | 08:42 pm
Fundamental analysis is our first step in evaluating securities for use in the covered call writing strategy. It is a method of evaluating a company’s stock by examining its financial statements, incl...
Ask Alan – Managing and Learning from Losing Trades 8 Aug 2013 | 05:06 am
Alan answers a question shared by Eddie who asks: “Right now I own three stocks that are killing me. I’m loosing $14,000 on UNXL, 1000 shares, and close to $25,000 on TZA, 3000 shares, and $5,000 on ...
The “Mark” vs. “Marking the Close” 3 Aug 2013 | 06:33 pm
Education is what makes covered call writers in the BCI community an elite group of retail investors. A few weeks ago I produced an Ask Alan video titled “What role does the mark play in our covered c...
Ask Alan – Screening for the Highest Returns 1 Aug 2013 | 08:34 am
Alan answers a question shared by Martin from Queensland, Australia who asks: “When screening multiple stocks, trying to determine which are going to offer the best return on option, if I first compa...
Unusual Options Activity: Speculation or Cheating? 27 Jul 2013 | 07:51 pm
Covered call writers are average retail investors looking to generate monthly cash flow in small but consistent increments and then compounding those profits. In time, it could lead to financial indep...
Ask Alan – Earnings Reports and Gap Downs 25 Jul 2013 | 05:57 am
Alan answers a question shared by Bob from Roswell, GA who asks: “I am a new member. Bought and read your books. I followed your advice and I am trading covered calls in my paper money account. I bou...
