How To Sell Covered Calls (Easy Monthly Income)

Fri, 02 May 2025 14:54:23 +0000

How to sell covered calls for passive monthly income - learn options trading
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Covered Calls:
When you own 100 shares of any company you can sell covered calls on your position and collect a payment called a premium simply for selling that option. This premium is paid to you by the person on the other side of the trade who is buying that option. Now it’s called covered calls because your position is covered by the 100 shares that you own. You are putting up the shares as collateral for this trade in case the trade goes against you and you are forced to sell your shares- You must have a collateral of 100 shares for each 1 option contract that you sell. So let’s say you own 100 shares of a stock and decide you want to sell a covered call on the stock. Here’s what’s going to happen step by step. You pick a strike price and expiration date for the option that you want to sell. The strike price must be higher than the current price of the stock. This is called selling Out-Of-The-Money Calls.

Company X is trading at $50 right now. I decide I am going to sell covered calls on my position so the first thing I have to do is choose a strike price I don’t think the stock will reach by a certain date. Let’s say by next month I don’t think company X will reach $55 which would be a 10% increase for the stock. So I pick to sell an option with a strike price of $55 and an expiration date of 1 month out. Once I sell this option a few things will happen. First the brokerage will put aside the 100 shares that I own as collateral for the trade. These are still my shares but I just can’t do anything with them before I exit out of my options trade. Secondly, I will get paid a premium for selling this option paid to me by the option buyer. Now this premium is put into my account right away. In this case lets say the premium is $2. I will get paid $200 because remember 1 option contract controls 100 shares so we multiply the premium by 100 for each contract - so boom I get paid $200 into my trading account.

Now at this point 1 of 3 things can happen with the trade.
Scenario #1 - the stock price does not reach the strike price by expiration. (That’s good)
Scenario #2 - the stock price reaches and exceeds the strike price by expiration (That’s bad)
Scenario #3 - You decided to close your position before expiration by buying back the contract and closing the trade.

Can you lose money selling covered calls? if you own stock and already are in the profit on your stock position then you CANNOT lose money selling covered calls and waiting until expiration. The worst thing that will happen is you’ll lose your shares - not lose them but be forced to sell them at the strike price. You might feel like you lost money if your stock shoots up way past the strike price - and you are forced to sell at a lower price - but you only lost the chance to make that extra profit. Remember, you should always sell calls at strike prices above where you bought the stock because then you’ll always be in the profit and whether or not your shares get called away you’d still make money

Do you get to keep the premium if your shares get called away? Yes - the premium gets deposited into your trading account right away and is yours to keep because you did not have to buy the option back. The option will be exercised and you’ll lose your shares but get to keep the premium.

What happens with my collateral - so when you put up collateral you can’t do anything with the shares until the option position is closed. The shares will be released back to you the day after the option expires or right away if you close your position early. Once you have your collateral back you can go ahead and sell another call using the same collateral for the next week or the next month.

Will I have to pay taxes on the premium I collect? Yes, simple answer - just like any trade, if you make a profit you will be subject to the all mighty short term capital gains tax so you’ll definitely want to keep that in mind and plan for that.

I am not a financial advisor - none of the above video is meant to be taken as investment advice. I am just showcasing MY own strategy and my investments should not be tried and duplicated based solely off the information in this video for risk of losing money.