Selling Covered Calls – Getting Cash for Stocks You Already Own

Selling Covered Calls – Getting Cash for Stocks You Already Own By Lee Lowell, Advisory Panelist, Mt. Vernon Research Tuesday, December 27, 2005: Issue #270 If you own at least 100 shares of stock, and you’re not selling call options against it, then you are throwing away free money. How’s that? Well, there are other [...]

Out of the Money Options – Buyer Beware, Seller… Take The Money

Out of the Money Options – Buyer Beware, Seller… Take The Money By Lee Lowell, Advisory Panelist, Mt. Vernon Research Tuesday, November 1, 2005: Issue #255 About a year and a half into my days as an options market maker on the floor of the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX), I discovered the strategy of [...]