Perpetual Income Trade Alert: KHC, SO, VALE, WMB
As mentioned before, depressed volatility at this time is restricting the cash we can collect rolling or extending covered calls. We have several positions we will need to let expire worthless and several where we can pick up some cash in the short-term. Reminder: The US stock market is closed Monday for Memorial Day. Have […]
Perpetual Income Trade Alert: CAH, CWH, DOW, GILD
Optimism that the debt ceiling crisis will be resolved soon is driving the market higher today. Even with fear in the market earlier this week, option volatility remains flat with the VIX down at 18 again. That means out of the money option premiums are slim around the stock price unless a company has earnings […]
Perpetual Income Trade Alert: CWH, DOW, WMB
The stock market has been trading in a flat range for the past month and a half. Anticipation is building that something is going to change the direction up or down… another Fed rate hike… more bank failures… a U.S. debt default… a recession. That fear of the next big event isn’t really showing up […]
Perpetual Income Trade Alert: CF, DOW
We have two call options expiring this week that we are going to roll today. ROLLCF Industries (CF): 74.55 CF Industries has bounced off its 67 low and is trading in the 72-to-75 range. With earnings scheduled for May 1, premiums are elevated. We can roll our call out two weeks and down a […]
Triple Play Income Alert: ABBV, DOW, GILD
The market is giving us a chance to sell covered calls on a couple of our positions, as well as roll one call out a week. TRADE ROLLAbbVie (ABBV): 156.51 AbbVie’s stock has continued to hold up through the first quarter post-Humira going off patent. Let’s roll our calls out one week ahead […]
Triple Play Income Alert: CWH, DOW, PM
The bank failures’ impact on the market is hitting value dividend stocks as well this week. While some of our stocks have fared OK, most of them are down again today with the broader market sell-off. We don’t have any positions to manage, but we do have two open call positions expiring and one assignment […]
Triple Play Income Alert: ABBV, CAH, DOW
We have several positions that we can roll, sell calls, or buy stock and sell calls ahead of tomorrow’s expirations. SELL CALL AbbVie (ABBV): 152.31 AbbVie stock has traded higher the last several days on no real news. That gives us enough room to sell a call above our stock entry price […]
Triple Play Income Alert: ABBV, BX, CWH, DOW, OKE, RIO
It was another wild week of intraday swings in the market. Up 1% and then down 2% and then back up 1%. A lot of active trading in big lots by institutional and high-frequency traders trading highly volatile indexes and ETFs with same-day expirations (0DTE). Most of our positions held up through the chaos, though, […]
Triple Play Income Alert: DOW, VALE
We were called out of DOW and VALE stock positions over this past weekend. Let’s get back into those positions selling puts. SELL PUT Dow Inc. (DOW): 57.62 Dow recently picked up several analyst upgrades and the stock price has recovered since its October lows trading higher this week. With China re-opening […]
Triple Play Income Alert: CAH, CF, DOW
This is Santa Claus Rally Week (first 5 trading days after Christmas and the first 2 days after New Year’s Day) and so far, it has been an up-and-down market. With stocks trading higher today, maybe the rally will hold into the next week. We have several positions to manage today. Here is the […]