Covered Calls

Ben Bernanke injected a healthy dose of fear into markets last week. For options traders, it was sorely needed.

If you’re at or near retirement age, you’ve probably heard a dangerous myth repeated often in the media by so-called financial experts. Your own broker, money adviser or mutual… Read more

Some people take a simple concept and sprinkle it with some mumbo jumbo to make it seem complicated … and then claim only they can explain it to you!… Read more

The "Sell In May" phenomenon is a very real thing. But that doesn't mean you can't make money over the next six months. With options — namely covered… Read more

I’d say it’s no stretch to call AT&T (NYSE: T) one of the more reliable dividend-growth and income investment stocks on the market. The large telecom has continually paid… Read more

Join Andy Crowder today at noon eastern time for his latest live options chat, “Double Your Income Without Investing in Stocks.”

With the S&P 500 in an overbought state, options analyst Andy Crowder says it's time to take the contrarian view and fade the SPY.

Here is another example of how I use credit spreads to bring in income on a monthly and
sometimes weekly basis. This time I am using a bear call… Read more

If you're like most investors, your portfolio is probably now sitting about where it was before the 2008 stock market crash. It was a long haul back, but many… Read more