Covered Calls 101

Covered call options can be used to generate portfolio income and hedge stock risk. This online course demonstrates how you can use covered calls as part of your investment strategy.   

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Use covered calls to generate portfolio income and hedge risks.

Covered Call Basics

Benefits and Risks

Multiple Examples

Intro to Covered Calls

Covered Call Options

Our Covered Calls 101 video course guides you through the ins and outs of selling covered calls.

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The Basics

You will learn the definitions and components of covered calls

Benefits and Risks

You will gain an understanding of the benefits and risks of covered calls

Portfolio Income

You will see how you can use covered calls to generate portfolio income

Generate Income and Reduce Risks

How to Use Covered Call Options for Portfolio Income

For income-focused investors, covered calls can be exceptionally powerful. They are considered one of the most conservative and useful trades available. It is important to understand how you can use covered calls to generate portfolio income.  

In this online course, you will get a comprehensive look at covered calls. Not only will you learn the basic definitions and elements of covered calls, but you will also see a detailed example. You will also learn the benefits, risks, and obligations of this strategy.

What is a Covered Call Option?

Covered call options are among the most popular option trading strategies available. They can be an effective way to generate income, enhance returns, and hedge the risk of stock ownership. 

With a covered call, you must first own shares of a stock. You will then write (or sell) a call option against the shares you already own. In other words, you are “covering” your shares. The buyer of your covered call has the right to buy your shares from you at an agreed upon strike price on or before the option’s expiration. For this right, the call buyer will pay the call seller option premium. You, as the call seller, are obligated to sell your shares if the call buyer decided to exercise their buy your shares. 

Although a covered call is a relatively simple and straightforward option strategy, there are multiple moving pieces that you should understand. For example, determining which strike price to sell your calls at is a crucial decision. The strike price can make the difference between a stock position resulting in profit or a loss.  

If you’re new to covered calls, our free online Covered Calls 101 course will help you get started.  It covers must-know topics like basic option vocabulary, the components of a covered call, what strike price and expiration date we recommend, and so much more.

Take Covered Calls 101 today to learn how you can benefit from selling covered calls. 

Covered Calls 101

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Use covered calls to generate portfolio income and hedge risks.

Covered Call Basics

Benefits and Risks

Multiple Examples

Generate Portfolio Income and Reduce Risks

Online Course: Covered Calls 101

This free online course is a comprehensive guide to selling guides. It offers valuable, easy to understand information for a new covered call investor. 

Basic covered call terminology

Examples of covered call Options

Expiration outcomes and obligations

Covered calls risks and benefits

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Covered Calls 101

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Use covered calls to generate portfolio income and hedge risks.

Covered Call Basics

Benefits and Risks

Multiple Examples

Author & Instructor

Shelley Seagler

Director of Education

As our Director of Education, Shelley brings over 25 years of experience in group training and facilitation. In 2005, Shelley was handpicked by our founder, Kim Snider, to take over all aspects of Snider Method education.

As the instructor of our Snider Method workshop and the creator of our Snider Method Online Course, she has taught thousands of people how to competently manage their investments. Shelley also regularly teaches investment webinars for our preferred brokerage firm, Ally Invest.

Our clients connect with Shelley’s unique ability to take complex topics and teach them in a way even the most novice investor can understand.

About Us

Snider Advisors

Snider Advisors is a boutique, SEC registered investment advisor. As professional wealth managers, we have a fiduciary responsibility to our clients and a verifiable track record since 2002. Everything we teach is academically sound and based on empirical research and data. Our strategies and philosophies are the result of solving real-world problems for our families and ourselves as well as our clients.

The Snider Investment Method is our primary strategy used to help clients generate more income from their investment portfolio consistently and with less risk than most other options for individuals in or near retirement.

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