3 weeks left on current Alcoa trade Code Orange

There are 3 weeks remaining on the current Alcoa trade. The trade is currently Code Orange. The stock closed the week at $10.43. That is a rise of $0.27  from last week. The Mar $11.00 call ask price closed at $0.13. That is a rise of $0.02.

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Seeking Alpha article on Covered Call (Allan Ellman)

Seeking Alpha has published the following covered call article by Allan Ellman regarding portfolio overwriting. Enjoy!

Allan Ellman - Portfolio Overwriting - Selling Covered Calls on Stock You Want To Keep

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Seeking Alpha article on JOTM Covered Call Ops

Seeking Alpha published an article by David Jonas using the strategy of covered call trading on just out of the money options. The stock referenced is Microsoft.

David Jonas - Profiting From Microsoft's Inertia

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4 weeks left in current Alcoa trade Code Orange

There are 4 weeks remaining on the current Alcoa trade. The trade is currently Code Orange. The stock closed the week at $10.15. That is a  of $0.14 from last week. The March $11.00 call ask price is currently $0.11. That is a decline of $0.10 from last week.


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Seeking Alpha Covered Call Article about Apple

Seeking Apple has published the following covered call article on Apple by Richard Block. The article provides other strategies to use instead of selling calls for Apple.

Richard Block - Selling Apple Calls? Think About Selling Stock Instead

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5 weeks until current Alcoa trade ends Code Orange

There are 5 weeks remaining on the current Alcoa trade. The trade is currently Code Orange. The stock closed the week at $10.29. That is a decline of $0.47. The Mar $11.00 call ask price closed at $0.21. That is a decline of  $0.18.

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6 weeks until current Alcoa trade ends Code Yellow

There are 6 weeks left until the current Alcoa trade ends. The trade is currently Code Yellow. The stock ended the week at $10.76. That is a rise of $0.33 for the week. The March $11.00 call ask price closed the week at $0.39. That is a rise of $0.10 for the week.

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Alcoa Ex-Dividend day today

Today is Alcoa's ex-dividend day. On Feb 25, Sell The Call will receive $0.03 for each share owned. This is the second dividend payment that will be made to Sell The Call totaling $0.06 per share.

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New Born To Sell Newsletter

The following is the Feb 1 newsletter from Born To Sell.

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A Triumph Of Strategy Over Hope Goldman Sachs released a recent study that shows how writing covered calls can help you beat the market. Conclusion: "Writing covered calls would have increased performance smartly over the past five years," Their study Beat Your Benchmark states, "The key to significantly outpacing the market seems to be selling calls against large-capitalization stocks with high implied volatility (the critical part of an options price) during months in which the company isn't reporting earnings." Doing this, Goldman reports, "boosted annual returns by 5.39 percentage points from 1996 to 2011, and reduced risk." To read more about the study along with 13 stocks to consider now, see A Triumph Of Strategy Over Hope on Barrons.com. Covered Call Screening Ever wonder how many covered call candidates exist at any given time? While it varies from day to day, normally there are around 230,000. Too many to look at individually but if you use a covered call screener you can reduce that number to something much more manageable. Quick example: To see the rest of this funnel and how it reduces the 16,537 candidates down to 38, please read our blog entry on Using A Covered Call Screener. Example trades for each of the final 38 candidates are listed, too. High Yield Dow 30 Industrials One popular screen to look for high yield (but relatively stable) stocks for covered calls is to sort the Dow 30 industrials by dividend yield, and then look for the lowest P/E ones near the top of the list. The idea being that you will be buying high yield value stocks. We did this in early January to find 8 stocks with low P/Es and high yields. Chevron (CVX) came out on top, and makes a good covered call candidate. To see the other 7 stocks, see our article on High Yield Stocks. Conservative vs Aggressive Use Of Covered Calls Despite being a conservative strategy, covered calls can be used aggressively if an investor wants to do that. While the conservative investor seeks large cap dividend paying blue chips that do not have earnings before expiration, the aggressive investor chooses momentum (and other high beta) stocks, trades on margin, and seeks the highest annualized returns possible. While the aggressive plan is great when it works, many investors have been burned at some point by following that strategy. For some conservative trade ideas, see our article on Writing Covered Calls For Consistent Profits. DMND And 3 Other Covered Calls For Feb 18 Expiration With just over 2 weeks to go until the Feb options expire, the top 4 covered calls Born To Sell members have written are (in order of popularity): Rank Symbol Strike 1. DMND 36 2. X 30 3. GE 19 4. MSFT 27 (Note: Born To Sell members have access to the full Top 10 Covered Call list, as well as having this list update real-time as members change positions. These are not recommendations, they are merely a reflection of our members' current positions.) INTC And Other Covered Call Watchlist Stocks Currently, the top 8 stocks Born To Sell members are using for their Watchlist are (in order of popularity): Rank Symbol 1. INTC 2. MSFT 3. AAPL 4. T 5. GE 6. JNJ 7. F 8. BAC (Note: Born To Sell members have access to the full Top 20 Watchlist, as well as having this list update real-time as members change their watchlists. And, you can have the highest yielding covered calls from your personal watchlist emailed to you after the close each day. Never miss a fat premium from your watchlist again!) Want More Covered Call Goodness? Born To Sell is dedicated to only one thing: Making Money With Covered Calls. Our subscribers have access to state-of-the-art covered call screeners and covered call portfolio management tools. For less than the profit of a single trade you could be enjoying recurring monthly income using our tools. Three subscription types to choose from: Term Price Monthly $59.95 Quarterly $149.95 (17% discount) Annual $499.95 (31% discount) Plus, all subscriptions begin with a no-obligation 2-week free trial. What are you waiting for? Start collecting premium today! Happy Trading, The Born To Sell Team Follow us: Facebook | Twitter or watch demos of Covered Call Tools (YouTube)

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