• How to Write Covered Calls with Better Yields

    How to Write Covered Calls With Better Yields

    With a traditional approach to investing, you buy a stock with the expectation that its price will rise, allowing you to sell it for a profit in the future. The focus is the stock’s capital appreciation potential. But how does this approach fare when your primary goal is portfolio income? The answer largely depends on

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  • How Option Greeks Affect Covered Calls

    How Option Greeks Affect Covered Calls

    The concept of a stock option is fairly straightforward: It provides the right or obligation to buy or sell a stock at a specified time and price. Of course, the…

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  • Generate an Income from Credit Spreads

    Generate an Income from Credit Spreads

    Income investing is popular among investors in or approaching retirement, but there are few good choices during periods of record-low interest rates. Exchange-traded options provide an easy way to generate…

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  • How to Construct a Collar Option

    How to Construct a Collar Option

    Covered calls are a popular way to generate income from an existing stock position, but they aren’t the best choice for every situation. For instance, covered calls have significant downside…

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  • Buying Protection with  a Married Put

    Buying Protection with a Married Put

    The stock market is known for rising during both times of euphoria and fear. For instance, the stock market hit record highs during the COVID-19 pandemic despite extremely high levels…

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  • How Dividends Impact Option Pricing

    How Dividends Impact Option Pricing

    Dividend stocks are a popular way to generate income, but they also impact several other investment strategies. For example, dividends impact option pricing. Let’s say that an investor that’s selling…

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  • Honoring Kim Snider

    Honoring Kim Snider

    It is with a heavy heart I write to you today. Sadly, Kim Snider, founder of Snider Advisors and creator of the Snider Investment Method, passed away on Sunday, July…

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  • 5 Reasons to Work Another Year Before Retiring

    5 Reasons to Work Another Year Before Retiring

    There’s no shortage of advice about how to save enough to retire early, but in some cases, you may want to consider the opposite. By deciding to work another year,…

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  • What Are the Components of Asset Allocation?

    What Are the Components of Asset Allocation?

    It’s easy to see that many financial assets are highly correlated — especially large assets. If there is a new sign of an economic slowdown, investors expect the entire S&P…

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  • Can I Trade Options on an Index

    Can I Trade Options on an Index

    Passive investing has exploded in recent years. Investing in broad-market indexes has surged in popularity and costs less than ever before. You can take this approach to the next level…

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  • Can I Trade Options in an IRA?

    Can I Trade Options in an IRA?

    Many individual investors wish to utilize options trading to generate income but are unsure of whether or not they can trade options in an IRA. Most individual retirement accounts (IRAs)…

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