Protecting a covered call position

[traderlux]

maybe not a direct answer to your question, but here is how i deal with a cc.

dont usually start with a cc, will start with a csp, and attempt to avoid getting the stock
put to me, if i get the stock, will consider selling it and doing another csp, or doing a cc.

if have a cc showing a gain, wil consider closing every thing out, stock and call, and do a csp to start again if i still like the stock. dont usually leave a trade until have a profit or break even,
only do this with stocks i am ok working with for awhile.

 

[DTB2]

A covered call is a bullish trade. The stock follows through on your bullish assumption. What's the problem?

Take the win and call it a day.

 

[lawrence-lugar]

What is the best way to "lock in" a CC position

KISS

I agree, zdreg.

KISS...keep it simple, stupid -- I would personally say and prefer to just be a directional trader.
Buy a call if you think it's gonna go up, or buy a put bet if you think the market will go down ,
This is the absolute basics of it. But to accomplish this, requires a much much more deeper understanding.
The surface of things...Always looks so easy and instant.

All those weird, mix, complex option strategies looks like alien language to me.
I don't even know, or care, to know...about what all those greeks and theta and etc option technical terminology means.

2018 ET.

 

[OptionsOptionsOptions]

A covered call is a bullish trade. The stock follows through on your bullish assumption. What's the problem?

Take the win and call it a day.

Cover Call is a neutral position - not bullish.

 

[FSU]

The potential profit in your position is whatever the corresponding put is trading for (same strike as the call you are short) This is what you can make if you leave the position alone. If you buy that put you are locking in whatever profit you have in the position, or you could simply take off what you have. Anything else you do really creates a new position.

 

[FSU]

Cover Call is a neutral position - not bullish.

You are wrong. Long stock and short a call is not neutral, it is bullish. How bullish would depend on the corresponding put.

 

[OptionsOptionsOptions]

You are wrong. Long stock and short a call is not neutral, it is bullish. How bullish would depend on the corresponding put.

• Covered Calls = Neutral
• Long Stock = Bullish

A couple of Covered Call trades will clear that up. And most likely those will be the last CC trades you do - CC's are useless trades.

 

[FSU]

• Covered Calls = Neutral
• Long Stock = Bullish

You are wrong. Its that simple.

-Covered Calls = Bullish
-Long Stock = More Bullish

The delta on 100 shares of stock is 100. The delta on a 1 covered call, is 100 - whatever the delta on the corresponding put is.

 

[spindr0]

Cover Call is a neutral position - not bullish.

Net delta of CC is positive so it is a bullish position. Perhaps less so than outright stock but still bullish.

 

[OptionsOptionsOptions]

You are wrong. Its that simple.

-Covered Calls = Bullish
-Long Stock = More Bullish

The delta on 100 shares of stock is 100. The delta on a 1 covered call, is 100 - whatever the delta on the corresponding put is.

Net delta of CC is positive so it is a bullish position. Perhaps less so than outright stock but still bullish.

Don't get caught up in theory and option greek mumbo jumbo.
In reality a Covered Call is neutral. A stock called away is not bullish - and it will happen.