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Covered call strategy and market mechanics. Written by a 25-year options trader.
Is my covered call premium good? A better way to tell
Yearly-rate math, nearby strikes and IV rank each tell you something. None tells you whether this premium is high for this stock. Here is the comparison that does.
Cheap stocks with high option premiums, and what the percentage hides
Cheap stocks show the highest premium yields and the worst trading friction. What the tick grid costs you, and what 5.5 million contract-days showed.
The stocks with the highest option premiums, and what that screen is really showing you
You searched for the stocks with the highest option premiums. Here is what that list actually is, and why the fattest premium is rarely the trade you want.
How to Choose a Covered Call Screener
What to look for in a covered call screener, what to walk away from, and how to tell real analysis from a black box. From a covered-call writer of 25 years.
Boring is better: why dull, steady stocks are easier to write calls on
My dad taught me covered calls in my twenties: find the most boring stock you can, sell a call, collect the premium, repeat. 25 years later I'm still doing exactly that. Here's why the boring names quietly win.
What an extraordinary covered call premium is actually telling you
A real covered call dissected: 153% implied volatility, a 32% cushion, and a stock that fell by half. How to read time value before you write the call.
Written while the tool is being built.
Every post here comes out of the same decade of covered-call data the comparisons run on. The findings land here first.
It is not live yet. The list gets the full story of why I tore this down and rebuilt it, then real notes as each stage lands · no pitch, nothing behind a wall.