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A friendly word of warning here.
If you’re still struggling with the whole idea of options at this point, or the covered call strategies laid out elsewhere, then you might like to pause right here, go back, re-read, and get familiar with what you’ve read so far.
As and when you are ready, here’s an explanation […]

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I’ve been engaged in a thoroughly interesting IM conversation this morning with my editor at Property Secrets about covered calls. It’s been really nice to get away from our usual practical exchanges about deliveries and deadlines!
Anyway, he went off and did some research of his own, of course, and came back to me with […]

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So far, we’ve learned that the ‘traditional’ covered call strategy works well if the underlying stock moves just a little either way, or steams upwards. However, it offers little by way of downside protection, limited as it is to the time premium collected on the sold ‘at the money’ or ‘out of the money’ […]

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Here we consider another version of the covered call that offers much greater downside protection and a much larger potential profit range.
For this, we’re going to move away from ABC shares of previous articles and run an example with a real company, and real numbers.
Let’s look at Rambus (RMBS), a company that manufactures and […]

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In the Introduction to Options, we saw that there are considerable risks involved in either buying options (to speculate on the future direction of the underlying stock or instrument) or in writing options (which is also speculating, but from the other side of the transaction).
With the three covered call strategies we use at Maverick […]

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An option is an investment instrument. There are options available on commodities, currencies, stocks and real estate and, while they all basically operate in a similar way, this article focuses on stock options.
There are two types of options.
A put option gives the buyer the right, but not the obligation, to sell the underlying instrument […]

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