These guys look identical to someone
writing out of the money options and collecting premiums.
Investors who have core holdings of non-volatile stocks will often do this —
write out of the money options that have 3 - 6 months of time to expiration.
Not exact matches
I want to hold shares and not turn them for
options so I
wrote out of the
money covered calls for bonus income.
Now, imagine you are willing to sell any
of these stocks if they rise by 5 % or more in a 30 day period, i.e. you
write call
options (stock
options) against all
of them that are about 5 %
out -
of - the -
money.
The call
options written are slightly
out of the
money and are rolled forward every month upon expiry.
We've added two columns below: the first assumes you
write an
option that is at least 5 %
out -
of - the -
money each month, and the second is the sum
of the annualized dividend and call premium (the annualized call premiums in these examples are 12x the September cycle time premium for
options that are between 5 % and 9 %
out -
of - the -
money):
moneyness, or the distance from the strike price to the current stock price at the moment you
write the
option (not all
of these have $ 1 strike increments, so you can't always choose an
option that is exactly 5 %
out -
of - the -
money, but all
of the above are at least 5 % OTM)
Write an
out of the
money call
option and get some extra income each month.
Ran
out of time to
write a new April Fools» joke this year, but here are a couple
of oldies but goodies: Free
Money Printing Press (5 years later we still get emails from people asking if the offer is valid), CBOE's New Mega And Nano
Options (like mini weeklys but better!)
To mitigate downside risk and generate income, the Investment Manager actively manages a covered call strategy that will generally
write out of the
money covered call
options on 100 %
of the portfolio securities.