Trading as a Beginner Part 4: Writing Covered Calls
David Mitchell • March 11, 2024
How would you like the potential to make 68% returns or higher in four and half months? Writing covered calls is a fun, slightly more advanced trading strategy. With those of you who are a little more conservative when it comes to risk, writing covered calls might become your favorite strategy.
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Covered in This Episode:
- Overview of covered calls
- How covered calls are like a house that you fix up and rent out
- How covered calls can create cash flow
- When to write a covered call
- A real world example: MITK
- Six stocks that will work RIGHT NOW for this play (recorded on Feb 15th)
Suggested Content:
- Trading for Beginners Part 1: Buy & Hold vs Rolling Stocks
- Trading for Beginners Part 2: The Power of Leverage
- Trading for Beginners Part 3: Skyrocket Your Leverage
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•
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