Tag: Income Investing
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Buying Protection with a Married Put
The stock market is known for rising during both times of euphoria and fear. For instance, the stock market hit record highs during the COVID-19 pandemic despite extremely high levels…
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Can Option Trading Really Give You Safer Retirement Income?
Option trading may sound like a risky endeavor, but like most investments, it’s only as risky as you make it. After all, stock investing can be incredibly risky if you’re…
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Can I Trade Options on an Index
Passive investing has exploded in recent years. Investing in broad-market indexes has surged in popularity and costs less than ever before. You can take this approach to the next level…
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Can I Trade Options in an IRA?
Many individual investors wish to utilize options trading to generate income but are unsure of whether or not they can trade options in an IRA. Most individual retirement accounts (IRAs)…
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Are Buy-Write Funds a Good Hedge Against Volatility?
There are many different ways to minimize volatility in a portfolio, including diversification into multiple asset classes, but buy-write funds have become a popular alternative for stock investors looking to…
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Dividends Play a Big Part in Performance
Many investors fail to appreciate the substantial impact that dividends have on stock performance over time. According to Hartford Funds, more than 80 percent of the total return of the S&P…
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How to Find Covered Call Opportunities
Covered calls have become one of the most widely used option strategies for generating income. While simpler than most option strategies, finding the right covered call opportunities can be challenging—especially…
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How to Calculate Covered Call Outcomes
Covered calls are one of the most popular option strategies used by both short-term traders and long-term investors. In fact, The Snider Investment Method uses covered calls at its core to generate…
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Are Covered Calls Good in a Bear Market?
You’re approaching retirement and suddenly the market moves sharply lower. More than ten percent of your portfolio has disappeared over the past month and you’re concerned that the bear market…
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Weekly vs. Monthly Covered Calls
Covered calls are a great low-risk strategy to generate an income from an existing equity portfolio. By selling call options against an existing equity position, protect your downside some if…