Options sound complicated. They're not — once someone explains them without the jargon.
Most covered call apps and platforms give you a dial — Conservative, Moderate, Aggressive — without explaining what moves when you turn it. Premium goes up as you move toward Aggressive, but so does something else. Understanding that tradeoff is the difference between choosing a strategy and gues...
The BasicsHere's a number that doesn't get explained enough: when you sell a covered call with a delta of 0.20, that option has roughly an 80% chance of expiring worthless. Not as a vague estimate — as a mathematical property of the option's price itself.