Covered calls are a great strategy to add to any portfolio, and can offer enhanced yield from stock holdings, in some case, that can be a significant increase. To trade a covered call we need to own ...

Covered calls are a great strategy to add to any portfolio, particularly in this era of low yields. Covered calls can offer enhanced yield from stock holdings, in some case, that can be a significant ...

Income investors tend to gravitate towards covered calls, and blue-chip high yielding stocks are a great place to start. Pfizer (PFE) has been a strong performer in 2026 and is up 9.64% so far this ...

Occidental Petroleum (OXY) stock closed up 1.49% on Friday and has risen 23% since the end of February. Even if it's not a ...

Picture this: You own a bunch of prime real estate—beautiful apartments or sprawling warehouses—and instead of renting them out and generating income, you let them sit empty. Most savvy real estate ...

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 ...

Income investors tend to gravitate towards covered calls, and blue-chip high yielding stocks are a great place to start. Wells Fargo (WFC) has been a strong performer in the last three years and is up ...

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 ...

Buying covered call ETFs can provide investors with near-term outperformance during market cycles in which stocks hover sideways or trend downward. But there are key downsides to buying such ETFs as ...

Covered call ETFs play an increasingly vital role for income investors. While they have inherent flaws, the benefits clearly outweigh them. In the article, I detail the rationale for including covered ...

Covered Calls are a way to reduce your portfolio volatility and add a modest amount of hedge for a down market. Unfortunately, there are 50 different ways this can be done with most funds focusing on ...