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March 22, 2024

Just a quick heads up, I’ll be adding several new positions early next week. We currently have four positions in the portfolio and my immediate goal is to get back up to between six and eight positions using our ladder-based approach for consistent, weekly income.

Pfizer (PFE)

Just a quick heads up, I’ll be adding several new positions early next week. We currently have four positions in the portfolio and my immediate goal is to get back up to between six and eight positions using our ladder-based approach for consistent, weekly income.

Pfizer (PFE)

Since we introduced our PFE position back in early June 2022, we’ve managed to bring in 30.4% worth of premium and capital gains by using our simple income wheel approach. Comparatively, the stock is down roughly 47.4% over the same timeframe.

Our overall return for Income Trader now stands at 161.4%.

Not bad, for one of our more conservative, lower-beta positions. Remember, in Income Trader, I not only want to diversify the portfolio with uncorrelated stocks, I also want to diversify the levels of implied volatility of the various stocks/ETFs that reside in the portfolio.

Today, I want to hopefully build upon our 30.4% return, so I want to sell more call premium against our shares.

*As a reminder, we are not selling naked calls, so you need to have at least 100 shares if you wish to enter a new position in PFE. For those of you who are new to Income Trader and wish to follow along with PFE, buying at least 100 shares of PFE for every call contract you wish to sell is required as we are in the covered call phase of the Income Wheel strategy for PFE.

PFE is currently trading for 27.42.

Here is the trade:

Buy to Close PFE March 22, 2024, 29 (covered) call for $0.01. (Adjust accordingly, prices may vary from time of alert.)

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Sell to Open PFE May 3, 2024, 29 (covered) call for $0.41. (Adjust accordingly, prices may vary from time of alert.)

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Delta of short call: 0.28
Probability of Profit: 74.79%
Probability of Touch: 52.51%
Total net credit: $0.41
Max return (cash-secured): 1.4%

Risk Management

We use PFE as part of our Income Wheel Portfolio, so if PFE closes above our call strike at expiration, our shares will be called away and, in most cases, we will reap the capital benefits of the stock increase, plus the premium acquired. Until that point, we will repeatedly sell calls on PFE.


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Andy Crowder is a professional options trader, researcher and Senior Analyst at Cabot. Formerly with Oppenheimer & Co. in New York, Andy has leveraged his investment experience to develop his statistically based options trading strategy which applies probability theory to option valuations in order to execute risk-controlled trades. This proprietary strategy has been refined through two decades of research and real-world experience and has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Seeking Alpha, and numerous other financial publications. Andy has helped thousands of option traders learn and implement his meticulous rules-driven options trading strategies through highly attended conferences, one-on-one coaching, webinars, and his work as a financial columnist. He currently resides in Bolton Valley, Vermont and when he’s not trading, teaching and writing about options, he enjoys spending time with his wife and two daughters, backcountry skiing, biking, running and enjoying all things outdoors.