My 2018 primer, Selling Options...Simply Called and Simply Put, targets 3 groups: investors that are new to option trading, Series 7 exam students, and stockbrokers who passed Series 7 but lack good understanding of option trading (for 8 years, I was one of them). But this blog is helpful to investors and stockbrokers with all levels of option trading experience. My posts offer a pithy, first person style that I have used since 1995 to lessen their option trading angst.
Tuesday, October 30, 2018
ETFs vs individual stocks #2.
I looked at a blog for the first time today & liked the post on covered calls versus DOW 30 stocks. (Blue Collar Investor - covered calls, DJIA). I even added BCI to my blog's reading list. In my IRA, I sell the monthly cash secured puts against broad based ETFs to help me buy, & then, after assignment to buy the ETF, I sell the monthly covered calls to help me to sell it. I've considered using individual stocks, & even reviewed the BCI post's idea at today's market close. I did the arithmetic with DIA ($248.70), the ETF that invests in the DJIA's 30 stocks, & with WMT ($102.42) - Walmart - one of the DJIA's stocks. To maintain apples to apples, both equities have a current dividend yield of about 2.1%; & I selected the 11/16/18 puts & calls that were about 2.5% out of the money. I calculated what I call the premium yield - for puts, I divide the premium's BID by the strike price (the amount of cash reserved); for calls, I divide the premium's BID by the equity's market value. Using the time until expiration - 17 days - I annualized the premium yield. For selling puts, DIA's annualized premium yield was 25%, WMT's was 39%. For selling calls, DIA's was 18%, WMT's was 36%. I'm sure I'll re-visit the individual stock idea for my IRA, but how do you feel about covered calls (cash secured puts) versus ETFs?
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covered calls,
Dow 30,
puts
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