Welcome buckaroos and buckarettes!

This covered call blog is for you. I’m John Brasher, President and Publisher of CallWriter.com, which I modestly submit is the world’s foremost covered call website (a lot of our members agree). If you are conservative, like me, and believe in minimizing risk while generating a strong monthly income, you’ve found a home!

We are conservative stock investors/traders who believe in making money by generating short-term - sometimes monthly - income from stocks rather than passively holding said stocks for long-term appreciation. The secret to trading or any financial endeavor is cash flow. Ask Warren Buffett or Donald Trump; no matter what the game, the entire point is cash flow.

Sometimes we buy a stock just to write call options on it (which produces the aforementioned income), and sometimes we write calls on stocks in a portfolio. That’s right! It is possible to force those portfolio stocks to pay you quite a fine little income - in effect a monthly dividend - through writing call options. And you still get the quarterly dividends, too. Pinch me, I’m dreaming!

(Note: a call option gives its holder the right, but not the obligation, to buy shares of stock at a specified price for a set period of time. Thus when you write call options - referred to as calls - you are selling someone the right to buy your stock. The call is considered “covered” because you already own the shares underlying the calls and can deliver them, if required.)

In this blog I’ll be writing primarily about things of interest to covered call writers, both for buy-writing and portfolio writing. Topics will be wide-ranging, from technical analysis to trade selection, trade management, all kinds of things.

But… life is not just about covered calls, is it? Neither is trading. So I will also be posting topics and tips for option traders in general. I will talk about credit spreads, straddles and strangles, naked puts (an even simpler way to build a covered call trade), using protective puts and similar topics.

For you stock investors, I will be talking from time to time about conservative ways to generate an income from the ol’ portfolio in order to maximize returns. You can get the capital appreciation from your stocks over time and force them to pay you extra dividends in the form of income from selling call options.

In fact, I will continue the great tradition established in my free MONEY newsLETTER of delivering tips and tricks you can actually use in your trading and investing. Isn’t that what a trading blog should do?

This one does.

I live and breathe this stuff, so please subscribe now while it’s on your mind, visit often, pick my brain and - please - leave comments if the spirit so moves you. I will do my best to respond to comments and answer questions as I have time, especially if the answer or analysis would be helpful to the community.

Please join me. I’ll make it worth your while.