covered call options

Markets have continued to grind upward despite the short-lived Israel-Iran war, the Fed’s pause on interest rate cuts and what feels like seemingly bearish headlines every day. With stocks determined to keep climbing, albeit slowly, I looked for a company that will have strength going forward...

Writing covered calls is a popular options strategy used by income investors. Also known as a “buy-write” strategy, covered calls involve selling call options on a stock the investor already owns. In a hypothetical example, an investor that owns 100 shares of Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL)...

It has been good being a shareholder of major oil firms like ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP), Exxon Mobil (NYSE: XOM), Occidental Petroleum (NYSE: OXY) and many others. The bull market has lifted the equity prices higher, and oil's new role as a safe haven asset has made the companies even more...