If that call option
is exercised by the buyer, you maybe obligated to deliver your shares of the underlying stock. Since you own the stock,
you are covered, hence the name covered call. The reason for writing calls is you hope to keep the shares while generating extra income off of the premium. You will want to stock price to remain under the strike price you sold the call contract for and if that happens you keep the premium and the stock. Smart option traders will also take money off of the table in the middle of a trade, meaning if the
stock you hold gets hit hard, and sells o, the value of that call will drop.
Many times, even in my own trading, I would rather closeout the position without keeping the entire premium. Stocks generally trade between
their support and resistance, and if you area patient investor, which I know you are, you will do very well with covered calls.
GLOSSARY The following Glossary will give you all of the terms used to trade options. You don’t
need to memorize them, but you can always glance at them to solve a definition problem.
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