SMART Trading Strategies

Tag: covered calls

  • How to determine if your stock is underperforming the S&P500

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    Using stockcharts.com Using Python code

  • How to work with financial timeseries in Python

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    How to download stock and option prices from Yahoo Finance How to export data to separate Excel sheets How to read from Excel files How to export data to separate CSV files How to read tables from HTML pages How to plot single series stock charts (line graphs, bar charts, candlestick charts) using the cufflinks…

  • Covered Call Writing by Alan Ellman (Notes Part 3)

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    Here are some notes I took from the book “Complete Encyclopedia for Covered Call Writing” by Alan Ellman. I’m already familiar with how options work, so these notes only cover the new concepts I learned. I strongly recommend that you buy the book (it’s a good book) for more details and information. Chapter 9 –…

  • Covered Call Writing by Alan Ellman (Notes Part 2)

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    Here are some notes I took from the book “Complete Encyclopedia for Covered Call Writing” by Alan Ellman. I’m already familiar with how options work, so these notes only cover the new concepts I learned. I strongly recommend that you buy the book (it’s a good book) for more details and information. Chapter 5: Portfolio…

  • The Wheel Strategy for Options

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    The wheel strategy = Sell Cash Covered Puts + Sell Covered Calls when assigned the stock Here’s a video discussing the wheel strategy: Rules: Only sell cash covered puts on stocks that you want to own Sell 30 to 40 days to expiry Sell options with delta = 0.3 Lessons: If you have 50% unrealized…

  • Covered Call Writing by Alan Ellman (Notes Part 1)

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    Here are some notes I took from the book “Complete Encyclopedia for Covered Call Writing” by Alan Ellman. I’m already familiar with how options work, so these notes only cover the new concepts I learned. I strongly recommend that you buy the book (it’s a good book) for more details and information. Chapter 2 Covered…