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Hamish Maertens, CEO and founder of Option Generator AM, provides crystal clear analyses on selecting quality companies and combining these with option selling strategies. For a select group of Belgian clients, he offers wealth management solutions following the proven methodology of generating ...more

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Portfolio Tactics: Analyzing Risk When Rolling Your Covered Calls
We need to figure out what returns we can generate per unit of risk. It's the combination of putting various strategies together that makes our methodology work.
What To Watch Out For In Option Strategies
We believe that the real edge lies in high-probability option strategies, but the gap between choosing naked and covered positions is huge.
Why Selling In-The-Money Covered Calls Is A Great Strategy
After discussion how to play defense with covered option selling strategies, it's time to take a look at an example showing the true power of in-the-money covered call writing.
How Option Strategies Can Be A Great Substitute For Bonds
The coronavirus crisis has pushed conservative investors into so-called "safe" assets like bonds and gold, but the real question is whether that makes sense.
4 Long-Term Buying Opportunities In The Midst Of Elevated Volatility
There's a clear edge for buying equities into VIX-strength.
Buying Puts: Waste Of Your Money Or Crucial To Survive? - Part 2
Hedging your portfolio by utilizing long puts on the Eurostoxx-50 turns out to be a successful strategy in conjunction with traditional buy and hold investing, not to mention the covered call premiums we can collect on our long-term leaders.
Buying Puts: Waste Of Your Money Or Crucial To Survive? - Part 1
The VIX is difficult product to read, especially during uncertain times like we witness right now.
Selling Weekly In-The-Money Puts To Enter Covered Call Positions
Cash-secured puts are utilized best to buy a stock at a discount in the short term. Also, in-the-money short puts (synthetically long stock) are appropriate to circumnavigate dividend withholding taxes.
Why Aren't In-The-Money Covered Calls Immediately Exercised?
Why would the call buyer opt for early exercise? It is rare because option holders have control of the contract obligations up to contract expiration.
Poor Man's Covered Call Writing To Grow Your Portfolio Exponentially
Poor Man's Covered Call Writing is the fuel for a growing portfolio that relies on wise risk allocation.
Markets Tumble: Why Selling In-The-Money Covered Calls Beats The Market Right Now
The market took a serious beating last week. In this article I explain what new investors and conservative investors should do in order to generate a juicy return while enjoying downside risk protection in case of an escalating downturn.
Selling Deep In-The-Money LEAPs To Improve Your Percent Returns: A Viable Strategy?
Altria (MO) has hiked the dividend 10.40% annually over the last 5 years. At face value, this might be worth checking out for a covered call writing system that relies on selling ITM calls.
A Step-By-Step Playbook To Buying In-The-Money Calls
Buying in-the-money calls in lieu of buying shares is a very effective strategy for dynamic investors looking for an optimal risk/reward. By buying long-term in-the-money calls, called LEAPs, we are leveraging an underlying security.
Buying LEAPs: How To Get Started?
Buying LEAPs provides an alternative to buying the stock while maintaining upside exposure with limited time decay. We combine this wonderful strategy with low-volatility stocks that have excellent momentum.
Air Products & Chemicals: A Long-Lasting Growth Story
APD reported earnings which might have seemed to be a mixed bag at first sight. However, when listening to the conference call and digesting the financial statements and forward-looking remarks it was nothing but a solid quarter.
The Stock Market: How Wrong Timing Destroys Your Final Return
Market timers who try to beat the market have a higher chance of missing out on the most lucrative days
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