Explore 10 essential options strategies every investor should know, from basic calls and puts to advanced spreads, risks, rewards, and real-world use cases explained.

Selling covered calls could be a way to earn passive income for investors who own shares in companies that don’t pay dividends. But is there a catch? The post Covered calls: my new passive income ...

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If you’re familiar with the covered call options strategy, you know it’s a beginner-friendly way to generate consistent income. But what happens when the market moves unexpectedly, and your covered ...

Long call and covered call approaches both involve call options, but they serve very different purposes in a portfolio. A long call is typically a speculative strategy, allowing investors to profit ...

Covered calls let investors earn income from stocks while limiting potential upside Covered calls let investors earn income from stocks they already own by selling the right to buy them at a set price ...

I last covered NVIDIA Corporation (NVDA) on August 18th with an article titled "Nvidia's China Export: Buy The Rumor And Sell The News (Rating Downgrade).” That article was prompted by the company’s ...

Exchange-traded funds using options to generate income have become popular. They take a variety of approaches to providing income and growth. Exchange-traded funds that use covered call options to ...

Investors in Toll Brothers Inc. (Symbol: TOL) saw new options begin trading today, for the December 2026 expiration. One of the key data points that goes into the price an option buyer is willing to ...

The biggest risk I see for covered call investors is the L-shape sell-off. This is a situation, when the market registers a ...

Investors in British American Tobacco plc (Symbol: BTI) saw new options become available today, for the July 2027 expiration. One of the key inputs that goes into the price an option buyer is willing ...

The firm's covered-call ETFs have been outperforming competitors Covered-call ETFs can provide high monthly income in return for giving up some of the stock market's upside potential. Investors need ...