In this short video, I'm answering a blog reader's question - how to find the best stocks to write covered calls on.
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Hello everyone my name is Reinis Fischer and you are watching my YouTube channel, where I'm talking about stock investing, options trading, and finance in general.
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Alright, so today's topic I want to talk about is - how to find the best stock to write covered calls on
A few weeks ago a reader asked me a question - how to find the best stock to write covered calls?
Before answering this question let me give you a brief background about my options trading career - in short, I have been actively trading options for about two years.
My first trades actually were puts, not calls, I was selling put options - collecting premium and waiting for a contract to expire worthlessly just to start over. Rinse and repeat!
Just later I started to learn about adjustments and other options trading techniques.
I decided to start safely with the so-called dividend aristocrat stocks, and one such is T or AT&T stock
T stock has one of the highest dividend yields among dividend aristocrat stocks, paying about seven percent yield annually.
In a good year combining dividends with covered calls you could yield up to 20 percent of income from T annually, I mean like dividend is some seven percent and you're writing covered calls you could get 10 - 15 %
Remember there's always risk involved when selling covered calls, and the main risk is the stock could fail significantly, say you buy it paying 30 bucks and after a week it's trading at 15 and you're losing, you're losing big.
Anyhow I started selling premiums by writing put options on T stock, it felt safe and the worst that could happen - I could get assigned a hundred shares of T. But if so I would start selling covered calls, the so-called wheel strategy game, and yeah meanwhile I would collect that hefty dividend
New terminology, like wheel strategy, triple income and so on
So this is what I do still today - I look for relatively safe stocks, preferably from the dividend aristocrat list, depending on the situation either I start by writing put options or I just buy and write covered calls on it
My favorite top three dividend aristocrat stocks I write covered calls on I would say one of them is Realty Income (O) stock, one is AT&T, and one is PBCT, People's United Bank
The T stock is yielding about seven percent annually in dividend payments. Realty Income is yielding about four percent per year and People's United Bank - six or seven percent and combined
Here you go, if you're looking for some of the best stocks to write covered calls on I suggest starting with stocks from the dividend aristocrat list or the Dow Jones list top 30.
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