Covered Call Basics

• Some Covered Call Basics
• Option Account Approval Levels
• Option Symbols
• Stock Option Expiration Cycles
• Open Interest Explained
• Weird Options - Stock Option Adjustments
• Call Writing and Call Buying Compared
• Covered Calls vs. Spreads


• Questions and Answers II
• Delta, Volatility, and Option Valuation
• Implied Volatility and Covered Calls
• Covered Calls: Bullish Strategy or All-Weather Strategy?

For Newer Traders

• What happens when you write a covered call?
• Fast-Start Program
• Debunking Covered Call Myths
• Does CallWriter really work for inexperienced traders?
• Trading Scared Money
• Covered Call Trade Order
• Calculating the Covered Call Return
• Covered Call Trading Analysis - MRVL
• Introduction to In-the-Money Calls
• Why Write Out of the Money Calls
• Covered Call Index: Covered Calls Work
• Covered Call Writing Styles

Technical Analysis

• How to set up charts for Covered Call Writing
• Confirming with different chart time frames
• Stop, Look and Listen: Heed What the Stock is Telling You
• Finding the Bellwether Stocks
• To Read a chart properly, draw the proper trendlines.
• Moving averages and Covered Calls.
• Lesson in Stock Volatility.
• Technical Tips for Covered Call Writers

Trade Planning

• Go out, go long, go short or go deep?
• Money Management Volume I: How much money should you trade?
• Money Management Volume II: Taking trading costs into account.
• Choosing the Strike Price
• Handling Earnings Reports
• Covered Call Stop Orders
• Don’t Set Covered Call Stops too Tight
• Building a Covered Call Right

Trade Management

• Making the Tough Call
• The Tactical Unwind
• Defensive Covered Call Trade Management
• Analysis of a Covered Call Roll Vol. 1
• When to Close a Position
• Handling the Dropping Covered Call Stock
• Covered Calls: When the Stock Pulls Back
• Protective Put Strategies at Market Tops

Covered Call Trading

• When to write covered calls
• Ways to profit from covered calls
• Maximizing Covered Call Returns
• What's the real story on Deep-In-The-Money Calls
• Want to Padlock Your Portfolio?
• Writing Price Spikes
• It's Expiration Day... Now What?
• After the Expiration
• Protective Puts - to put or not to put?
• Why Shorter Trades Are Better
• Writing Covered Calls on Down Days
• Legging in to Covered Calls
• Low Volatility - Call Writing Heaven
• Checking for News
• Covered Call Rule No. 1
• Averaging Down in Covered Calls: Don't

Trade Analysis and Selection

• A Delphic Lesson - DPH
• Insider Selling at Countrywide

SuperPut Questions

• SuperPut Questions 1

Using CallWriter

• Trade Management Calculator™ - Rolling Covered Calls
• Covered Call Trading Tips - Vol. 1: Finding Calls to Write
• Trade Selection: Covered Call List Position
  

Other Trading Strategies

• Using the Real Time Lists™ for Other Strategies
• There are no bad markets
• Covering Calls with LEAPS
• Naked Calls, Long Puts and Shorts, Oh My!
• Writing Naked Calls
• The Synthetic Covered Call
• Bearfoot Calls
• Spread Trading Q&A
• Analysis of a bear call spread
• When Straddles and Strangles are Your Friend
• Turning Long Option Losers into Money in Your Pocket
• Credit Spread Tricks
• Introduction to Synthetic Trades Using Options
• Writing Naked Puts 1
• The Covered Put

The Taxman Taxeth

• Tax Rules on Stocks and Options
• Covered Calls and Dividend Tax Rates

Miscellaneous Topics

• Dividend Basics
• Currency Movements
• Free Charting Websites Compared
• Dividend Effects on Stocks and Options
• Oil's Effects on the Stock Market
• Halloween Effect (Sell in May, Go Away)
• New Margin Rules: Portfolio Margin
• One Point (Dollar) Option Strike Prices
• Penny Option Pricing - Oh Happy Day
• Buy and Hold (Hope) Investing