Option Trading Article of the Week
Option Trading - Put Writing Beats Covered Calls
Posted by Pete Stolcers on November 20
In today’s option trading blog I will respond to one of your questions, “Is Covered Call Writing Risky?”, I posed a question of my own. If you are doing a buy-write where you are buying the stock and immediately selling a call against it, is there a more efficient strategy? Before I dive in, let me address a few issues. Most people refer to any position where you are long a stock and short a call as covered call writing. I refer to covered call writing as a situation where the underlying stock has been purchased as a long term…Read the rest of Option Trading - Put Writing Beats Covered Calls
Stock Options Question of the Week
Front Month or Back Month Options?
Posted by Pete Stolcers on August 2
Question Today Dan W. asks, "Your last couple of recommendations have been for near month put options with very little time left. Why not use an option with 30 or 60 days to buy more time for a move? I read that you should never hold a an option with less than 30 days remaining because of declining time value, theta."
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