Tag: options

5 posts tagged options, newest first.

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Covered call: What 24 years of S&P 500 data say about it

By Markus · October 2, 2026 · 7 min

A covered call means you own 100 shares and sell someone the right to buy them from you at a fixed price, for a fee you keep. It turns some of a…

By Markus · October 15, 2024 · 8 min

Claude Shannon was an American mathematician, cryptographer, engineer and computer scientist who lived in the 20th century and died in 2001 aged 84…

By Markus · January 1, 2024 · 5 min

I have 7 trading accounts in my portfolio. One of the accounts returned +52% in 2023. See you next year! Lol. That seems to be the industry’s…

By Markus · February 3, 2023 · 6 min

I’ve been studying and trading options for the past several months. It’s not a style drift, but adding an uncorrelated income stream to the current…

By Markus · September 20, 2022 · 3 min

I recently decided to study options to understand if a particular negative skew (many small wins, occasional larger losses) strategy fits to my…