Add training workflow, datasets, and runbook
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during this two-month period—not to short the stock. Because equity
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options are American exercise and can be exercised/assigned any time from
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the moment the call is sold until expiration, a short stock position cannot
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always be avoided. If assigned, the short stock position will extend Sam’s
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period of risk—because stock doesn’t expire. Here, he will pay one
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commission shorting the stock when assignment occurs and one more when
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he buys back the unwanted position. Many traders choose to close the naked
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call position before expiration rather than risk assignment.
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It is important to understand the fundamental difference between buying
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calls and selling calls. Buying a call option offers limited risk and unlimited
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reward. Selling a naked call option, however, has limited reward—the call
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premium—and unlimited risk. This naked call position is not so much
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bearish as not bullish . If Sam thought the stock was going to zero, he
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would have chosen a different strategy.
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Now consider a covered call example:
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Buy 100 shares TGT at $49.42
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Sell 1 TGT October 50 call at 1.45
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Unlimited and risk are two words that don’t sit well together with many
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traders. For that reason, traders often prefer to sell calls as part of a spread.
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But since spreads are strategies that involve multiple components, they have
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different risk characteristics from an outright option. Perhaps the most
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commonly used call-selling spread strategy is the covered call (sometimes
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called a covered write or a buy-write ). While selling a call naked is a way
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to take advantage of a “not bullish” forecast, the covered call achieves a
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different set of objectives.
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After studying Target Corporation, another trader, Isabel, has a neutral to
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slightly bullish forecast. With Target at $49.42, she believes the stock will
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be range-bound between $47 and $51.50 over the next two months, ending
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with October expiration. Isabel buys 100 shares of Target at $49.42 and
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sells 1 TGT October 50 call at 1.45. The implications for the covered-call
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strategy are twofold: Isabel must be content to own the stock at current
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levels, and—since she sold the right to buy the stock at $50, that is, a 50
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call, to another party—she must be willing to sell the stock if the price rises
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to or through $50 per share. Exhibit 1.4 shows how this covered call
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performs if it is held until the call expires.
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