How To Pick Stocks Using Technical Analysis
An important element of covered call writing is technical analysis, a review of the chart and chart indicators. Those who write calls from a more technical …
How To Use Fundamental Analysis To Pick Stocks
Now that we know the risk factors that cause losses in covered call positions (later we will look at the investor’s own actions that cause losses), it is …
Today’s Hottest Commercial Real Estate Markets
Commercial real estate is a hot topic for investors, with plenty of opportunity for making money when done correctly. But when an investor makes a poor choice …
How To Increase Your Trading Odds
It is difficult to describe all the many variables that come into play when one is writing covered calls. Investing involves a lifetime of learning; …
9 Reasons Trades Go Bad
Many regard the stock market as a loser’s game in which only the lucky or wicked can prosper. Stock-picking and technical analysis don’t work, they will …
How To Find The Best Covered Calls
“Twenty years in this business convinces me that any normal person can pick stocks as well as, if not better than, the average Wall Street expert.” …
Which Chart Time Frame Should You Use?
A common mistake made by those new to covered call writing is to consult a daily chart only. However, it is necessary to also view a weekly chart to get a …
Trump Tax Plan
The GOP Tax Plan was announced today and the talking points include a reduction in tax rates for corporations and individuals. Individual tax rates will remain …
What Is Open Interest?
Open Interest is the number of contracts open (outstanding) in a unique option series (Example: the Microsoft DEC 30 Call). Open interest (OI) is the best …
Technical Chart Retracement
Stock prices never go straight up, or straight down, as the preceding charts show. They typically move in stair-step movements involving many small pullbacks …
How To Read Stock Charts
The prices on a stock chart provide a fossil record of the stock’s trading history. While prices have no memory, the humans who trade them do. It is true …
Support And Resistance
Support and resistance levels are crucial to know. A support level is a relative low that the price has hit and recovered from to advance again, due to a …
Moving Averages
Trend analysis is quite useful, but only part of our education as a technician. In a trending market, moving averages are even more important to assessing a …
Technical Analysis
The art of charting is the analysis of the price chart (that is, trend) in conjunction with studies (e.g., volume) that are appropriate in light of what the …
Technical Chart Analysis For Covered Calls
A covered call writer has a specific set of goals and expectations, and his technical (chart) analysis therefore must be geared to his specific needs. The …
LEAPS Covered Call
No strategy seems to fire the imagination more than buying the LEAPS call (or other long-dated call) instead of the stock and then writing short-term calls …
High Volatility Covered Call Strategies
Volatility Call Writing Definitely not a beginner’s strategy, but more of a trading strategy, this one is based upon trading the calls as the stock …
3 Covered Call Writing Strategies
Blue-Chip Volatility Writing This is a strategy popularly employed. We execute it by finding large-cap (blue-chip) stocks that: 1) are somewhat more volatile …
Proven Buy Write Covered Call Strategies
There are many variants of the buy-write covered call strategy. The simplest is to select the trade, buy the stock and write ATM calls; and it works. But there …