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No investment strategy is right for all investors. Investors should research and investigate alternative investment strategies. Listed below are ten reasons why an investor might consider using covered call investing as part of an overall investment strategy.
1. Supplement Income: - CD rates too low? Are stock dividends not producing enough income? Investors can [...]

Looking for ways to enhance the returns on your IRA or stock portfolio in these times of deflated stock returns and low interest rates? Selling covered call investing equity options is a conservative approach to squeeze out higher returns. When you sell covered-call contracts it gives the buyer the right, but not the obligation, to [...]

How does 3.9% average return in one week grab you?
An investor investing in ten S&P500 high potential return covered calls on May 9, 2008 would have experienced a 3.9% return in just one week and would have outperformed the S&P500 by 1.1% (S&P500 return was 2.8%).

Saint Louis based Monsanto (MON), a leading seed company, announced a strong second quarter profit. In fact, the earnings release showed profit more than doubled from the previous year’s second quarter. The news was inspiring to stock trading and many investors added the company to their trading portfolio. Some analysts noted the company’s 2008 [...]

Houston based Atwood Oceanics (ATW) announced a strong gain in second quarter profit and revenue. The offshore oil field service provider said its profits jumped 32 percent during the quarter ending March 31, while its revenue spiked 20 percent.
Net income for the quarter was $41.8 million, or $1.30 per share. During the same quarter in [...]

You may have come across the term FRO recently while visiting your brokerage account or reading any recent financial newsletters. FRO’s are ‘Fixed Return Options’, a new form of derivative trading vehicle that share various similarities to standard stock options, but also have distinctive differences.

MasterCard (MA) reported a huge boost in profits and revenue during its first quarter earnings announcement. The company seemingly scoffed at the notion of a credit crunch. Net income for the quarter ended March 31 was $446.9, or $3.38 per share. The incredible earnings report was a big driver of stock trading shortly following the [...]

Gartner Incorporated (IT), a Connecticut based information technology research company, said its first quarter profit more than doubled. The company communicated that its impressive earnings growth was due largely to greater contract revenue. This is likely to motivate stock trading as the growth is attributed directly to the company’s business operations.
The company said its net [...]

Kaiser Aluminum (KALU) announced that its first quarter profit more than doubled. For the first quarter, which ended March 31, the company said its net earnings were $39.1 million, which amounts to $1.92 per share. During the same quarter a year ago, the company earned $17.1 million, or $0.85 per share. This was huge growth [...]

A common stock trading technique is to buy a stock or call option when a stock is at a support position and/or to short a stock or buy a put option when a stock is at a resistance point and exiting the position based on some criteria like percent profit, etc. Generally for this trading [...]