Covered calls are a great strategy to add to any portfolio, and can offer enhanced yield from stock holdings, in some case, that can be a significant increase. To trade a covered call we need to own ...

Long call and covered call approaches both involve call options, but they serve very different purposes in a portfolio. A long call is typically a speculative strategy, allowing investors to profit ...

High yields are one of the main attractions for investors pouring billions of dollars into exchange-traded funds that use options to generate extra income. Among the most popular of these funds are ...

Covered calls are a great strategy to add to any portfolio, particularly in this era of low yields. Covered calls can offer enhanced yield from stock holdings, in some case, that can be a significant ...

The headlines surrounding today's markets are scary: stubborn inflation, rising interest rates, bank crises, a possible recession and other economic perils. However, the markets have proven to be ...

Covered calls are a great strategy to add to any portfolio, particularly in this era of low yields. Covered calls can offer enhanced yield from stock holdings, in some case, that can be a significant ...

Covered calls are a very useful tool for portfolio management. For the DG investor, they can also provide additional cash flow to purchase more dividend paying stocks. Many authors have offered ...

Even by the high-growth standards of the world of actively managed exchange-traded funds, the boom in a new breed of option-linked, income-generating funds known as covered-call funds has been ...

If you’re looking to generate income in the stock market, two option strategies often surface: covered calls and cash-secured puts. They’re both considered conservative by options standards and can ...

Covered-call funds have recently come back into the spotlight. Investors poured over $26 billion into the now-$65-billion derivative income Morningstar Category in the trailing 12 months, and over ...

Selling covered calls against a long stock or ETF position is a great way to hedge risk and smooth volatility. For example, selling a covered call on the S&P 500 on a monthly basis has shown to not ...

The CBOE S&P 500 BuyWrite® Index (BXM) is a benchmark index designed to track the performance of a hypothetical buy-write strategy (i.e. holding a long position in and selling covered call options on ...