September Covered Calls Trades On Dividend Stocks Update #2
By Donald E. L. Johnson
Cautious Speculator
- How to use covered calls to save bad trades.
- It often takes months to turn a losing trade into a winner.
- CG may be a buy for other traders.
Sometimes a trader has to work the spreadsheets to figure out how to account for a losing trade that was saved by hedging the trade with covered calls plus dividends over, say 484 days.
On May 20, 2022, I bought The Carlyle Group (CG) for $34.9465 a share and sold covered calls on it. Over the next 484 days I collected CG dividends and covered calls options premiums that totaled $7.34 a share.
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On Aug. 30, I thought the market would sink after its recent rally. So I sold CG 9.15.23 expiration $30 calls when the stock was at about $32.03. My bet was that on 9.15.23 the stock would close below $30. That would have allowed me to pocket a high premium and sell calls on the stock again.
The market rallied and on Sept. 15, CG was at $32.68. My net debit was $27.61. This means that when I sold CG at $30 minus $27.61 my profit on the trade, thanks to $7.34 per share individends and mostly out of the money covered calls options premiums was $2.39, or 6.83%. I may have also sold some out of the money puts along the way that reduced the net debit. I did these trades only when the premium prices were high enough to make the trades relatively safe from being assigned, until this month.
The lesson is that when a stock or ETF trade becomes a loser, a trader can sell covered calls and puts while collecting dividends to generate enough income to turn a 14% or worse loser into a winner. This may be known as a Jackson Street Hedge, thanks to the Chicago Board Options Exchange.
That CG is rallying may mean that it’s a good time to buy the stock and sell covered calls. But even though this trade was done in an IRA, I’ll wait about 32 days to make sure that I don’t turn the loss into a wash trade in the eyes of the tax collectors.
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On Barchart.com, CG is a 56% buy. Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) , which I bought today and sold covered calls on, is an 88% buy. The buys on the list are my bullish momentum trades and the sells are former buys that I’m trading calls on like I did with CG. And some of the sells are speculative bottom fishing trades.
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On the date of publication, Donald E.L. Johnson had a position in: AMZN, CPB, DHI, DOW, ISRG, KHC, KR, NEM, PAYC, PG, SJM. All information and data in this article is solely for informational purposes. For more information please view the Barchart Disclosure Policy here.
