Tag: options trading strategy
Which Is Better: Covered Calls Or Cash-Secured Puts?
Covered Calls and Cash-Secured puts seem to be the most popular choices among traders in finance and stocks. And for a good reason. The two trades in the same market, just on different terms. That’s right. And it all started with the same idea… Both kinds of trading are pretty much the same, except for […]
Validation Of Using Easy Covered Call Strategies
I often refer to covered calls as the third leg of a balanced, income-focused investment approach. (Three legs because it takes at least that many to make any chair or table stable and functional—the others are cash flow with high-yield stocks like in the Dividend Hunter and stocks consistently growing dividends like those in my […]
A Simple Option Strategy To Profit From Weak 3rd Quarter Earnings
Third quarter earnings season hits full stride this week. Eight-two of the S&P 500 companies and 12 of the 30 Dow Jones stocks report earnings in the next five days. Unfortunately, this is expected to be the worst quarter for earnings since 2009. Analysts are forecasting S&P 500 earnings per share growth of -1.7% and […]
