A Complete Guide to Covered Calls: Manage Risk, Optimize Returns

by Marty Kearney

Product Details:
Synopsis:

“Finally, a series built by the premier options education source, designed to help traders at all levels.”

Jacket Description:

The covered call is an essential strategy for every options trader. In this new 90-minute DVD presentation, popular instructor Marty Kearney of The Options Institute at the CBOE explains the basics of covered call writing, including assignment and tax implications.

From the motivations for utilizing the covered call to rolling your position up and out, Marty covers everything you need to know to trade this strategy. With clear-cut definitions and tons of real-world examples, he illustrates possible outcomes at expiration, including:

• The static return,
• The “if-called” return, and
• The “pure income” static return.

As an options professional, Marty’s unique insight reveals potential trouble spots, like:
• The break-even point,
• The indifference point, and
• Early exercise.

With a comprehensive online support manual, Marty walks you through building your own tables and diagrams in order to determine possible profit/loss scenarios, and teaches you to plan ahead with exit strategies.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Marty Kearney is a Senior Staff Instructor at The Options Institute at the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE). Kearney is the author of LEAPS Trading Strategies: Powerful Techniques for Options Trading Success, co-author of Understanding LEAPS, and a contributing author of Options: Essential Concepts and Strategies, third edition. He is a regular contributor to many new services, including Reuters, Group W, The CBS Radio Network, Derivatives Week, Barron’s, Fortune, Ticker Magazine, SFO Magazine, CNBC, NPR, Bloomberg, and others.