Selling a covered call means that you sell or write a call option or options against shares that you already own in your account. When you buy a call, it gives you the right (but not the obligation) ...

If stocks, bonds and mutual funds are the inner planets from Mercury through Mars, options trading is out there beyond Neptune, a dangerous place for ordinary investors. Except for writing covered ...

Most investors buy stocks and hope they’ll go up in price. Instead, why not generate cash flows of 8% or more from these holdings by selling covered calls? Let's discuss popular exchange-traded funds ...

Most investors buy stocks and hope they'll go up in price. They do nothing in the interim to generate cash flow from those stocks while they sit in their portfolio - like writing covered calls. "Write ...

While most plain vanilla investors know nothing about writing covered calls, this is actually the most common stock option strategy, and advocates say more ordinary folk should give it a try. "If you ...