Writing covered calls is an excellent way to use options in a low risk way, to generate additional income on your existing portfolio of shares. If you buy shares at the same time that you write the calls then the transaction is known as a buy-write. If you write calls on shares you already hold [...]
In the first three parts of this series, we used these screens to find high dividend stocks with strong balance sheets:
1. High Dividend Yield – Above 5 %
2. Moderate Dividend Payout Ratio – Below 50 %
3. Less Than 40 % Above 52-Week Low *
4. Options Available
5. Current Ratio: Over 1.5 [...]
In part 1 of this series, we used the following 6 screens to identify an undervalued, high dividend stock, Cal-Maine Foods, (CALM), with a strong balance sheet:
1. High Dividend Yield – Above 5 % (The S&P 500 average dividend yield is approximately 3.42%).
2. Moderate Dividend Payout Ratio – Below 50 % (The S&P’s [...]
With the recent rash of dividend cuts by historically dependable dividend-paying companies, income investors are finding it increasingly challenging to find safe high dividend yields. Indeed, Standard & Poor’s expects 2009 to have the biggest drop in dividend payouts since 1942. The market decline has created many accidentally high dividend stocks, as companies who’ve maintained [...]
Writing Covered Calls are a “moderate” investor’s favourite strategy. It works particularly well when the stock in question doesn’t move dramatically up or down, but rather just trends sideways. Basically, it works for stocks that are deemed too “boring” for option plays.For writing Covered Calls, we need to take a look at the opposite side [...]
“Are you, nuts?! You want me to risk part of my savings trading options? This whole covered calls idea sounds like just another one of those crazy options strategies that sound great, but don’t deliver in the end.”
My pal was a normally a mild-mannered sort – very reflective, always weighing the consequences rationally before [...]
Trading options and investing in dividend stocks are two subjects that aren’t normally linked, but, by using a conservative option trading approach, selling covered calls, you can actually often double and sometimes even triple your yield on dividend paying stocks. Selling covered calls is sometimes compared to taking out a limited insurance policy on your [...]