Covered Calls: Why They're Used and How to Make Adjustments

The covered call is a widely used income-producing strategy, one that can be employed by individual investors and large institutions alike. In this session, we'll start at the beginning, explaining how calls can be sold on an existing holding - but then quickly move in to what you should know about handling actual market conditions. Among the topics we'll cover:

What investor can do if a stock sells off sharply




Whether it may be beneficial to hold a position when the underlying rallies above the strike price




The decisions an investor may face if stocks consolidate