Personally, I am not a big fan of buying covered calls back after they have run away from me.
In recent months, I pocketed entire premiums as covered calls on INTC, Pandora (P) and other stocks expired worthless.
In my history, covered calls always seem to end well, particularly relative to a speculative play on a low-priced stock.
Hence, my appetite is undiminished for writing covered calls, month after month.
While the calls do not appear to be tied to any simultaneous transaction in the underlying stock, it is possible the investor is already long the stock and selling covered calls.
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Most small investors selling call options sell covered calls.
There are other moves you can make as well, such as hedging by selling covered calls or buying mutual funds that invest in foreign currencies to protect against the decline of the dollar.
As a result of analyzing German data, and in light of the overall global economic risks, we have moved 15% of the GMG Defensive Beta Fund assets into cash, covered calls and other hedging instruments.
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The programs bring traders onto the floor of the exchange, into the pits where options are traded every day, and include classroom sessions on everything from the history of options to lessons on selling covered calls.
He said during the month's audit, NHS Direct handled over 1, 000 calls from patients covered by the out-of-hours service, 500 of which had been given advice to care for their symptoms at home.
In a grubby room covered with mould, she fields phone calls from prospective brides and grooms.
Depending on the strategy, calls can be used to reduce risk (covered call-writing) or to add staggering amounts of risk ("naked" call-writing), so brokers issue options-trading permission only selectively.
We are continually getting calls about this and that and it should be removed or covered.
The airport created a garden and covered pavilion for greeting soldiers, and arranged with cellular companies to offer free phone calls.
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Deregulation has cut the price of long-distance calls in Japan by 75% over the past decade, allowing telemarketing agencies to expand the area covered by each call-centre.
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