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Nervous about a stock that has run? You can protect it and keep more upside than you think. Midterms next week, a war with Iran, rates still high. The question I get most right now is: “I’ve got a stock that’s run up. Should I buy puts, sell covered calls, or just ride it out?” There is a fourth choice, and it keeps far more upside than most investors expect. A zero-cost put spread collar on AMD protects you from −5% to −20% for six months and still leaves a 33.5% cap. Palantir, 31.1%. Broadcom, 24.6%. Even Apple keeps 12.1%, with a 15% cushion underneath. Net cost: roughly zero. Why not a traditional collar that protects to zero? Because for Apple, Microsoft, or Nvidia, a six-month fall to zero is not the risk anyone is losing sleep over. A 20% drawdown in a nervous market is. Insure the decline you actually fear, and the cap stays generous. And the cap is soft. Like a covered call, the short call can be rolled up and out if the stock keeps running. Protection is not one-size-fits-all. It depends on how the stock has behaved, and on your own Risk, Return, & Regret® profile. Read the full article: https://lnkd.in/gZZaFJHG ➡️ Learn more about Volworks: www.volworks.com 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘵, 𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘥𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘝𝘰𝘭𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘴 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮, 𝘱𝘭𝘰𝘵𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘣𝘰𝘦 𝘔𝘢𝘨 10 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘤𝘬𝘴 𝘣𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘶𝘱𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩 171-𝘥𝘢𝘺 95/80 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘳 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘴 (𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭) 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵 𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘤𝘬’𝘴 12-𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘩 𝘥𝘳𝘢𝘸𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯 (𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘻𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘭, 𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳 𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘬 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵). 𝘜𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘳 𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘵 𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘵. 𝘊𝘪𝘳𝘤𝘭𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘻𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘣𝘢𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘱. 𝘋𝘢𝘵𝘢 𝘢𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘖𝘤𝘵𝘰𝘣𝘦𝘳 26, 2026.

Why the highest premium may not be the best covered call to write. Accenture pays 1.5% for a 31-day call with 11% of room before the cap. On most screens that is the trade of the week. On ours it rates two stars out of five. Here is what the premium does not show: momentum 5 out of 5, relative performance 5 out of 5, up 30.7% in a month and 65% in three, up 89.9% since its June low. Is 1.5% enough to be paid for giving up everything above 11% on a stock moving like that? We say no. This week I ran our screen from 1,000 names down to the five that pay a normal premium and rate at the bottom anyway: Accenture, Costco, Salesforce, XLE and XLV. All five are there for the same reason. They look too strong to cap. The job is not only finding the best trade to put on. It is finding the best trade not to put on. Read the full article: https://lnkd.in/gBiszDuW ➡️ Learn more about Volworks: www.volworks.com 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘵, 𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘥𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘝𝘰𝘭𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘴 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮, 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘸𝘴 𝘈𝘊𝘕'𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘱𝘢𝘺𝘰𝘧𝘧 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘵 (𝘭𝘦𝘧𝘵) 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 (𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵). 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘢𝘵 $263.47 𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘬𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘤𝘢𝘱, 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘩𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘤𝘬'𝘴 89.9% 𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘑𝘶𝘯𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘸—𝘯𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘦𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘶𝘱𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘱. 𝘋𝘢𝘵𝘢 𝘢𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘖𝘤𝘵𝘰𝘣𝘦𝘳 19, 2026.

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Generating option income is only part of the equation. Timing matters, too. See which stocks and ETFs our research identifies as attractive covered call opportunities based on current market conditions and historic trends.

𝗠𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗮𝗱𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗵𝗮𝗹𝗳 𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁. 𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗲’𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗵𝗮𝗹𝗳. It has been a while since I published here. That changes this week. Starting now, Volworks will post one article every Tuesday, with short posts around it, on how advisors should use options on the stocks and ETFs they already own, and when they shouldn’t. Covered calls first, then Boosters, then put writes and put spread collars. Written for the advisor who already writes calls and wants a repeatable process, not the volatility trader. Every topic comes from a question we have actually been asked. Plain English, and two real platform screens in every piece. Two things I most want to change your mind about: premium is the market’s price for expected movement, so sorting by it points you at the names you least want to cap. And a conservative covered call needs a decision before expiration far more often than the 15 to 20 percent you have been told. Our research, and 25 years of managing these positions, says closer to 65 percent. Selling the call is the easy part. And no, you cannot hand all of this to an AI agent and walk away. We build AI into our platform; we will write about where it helps and where it should hand the decision back to you. Read the full article: https://lnkd.in/gW3UMvU6 ➡️ Learn more about Volworks: https://www.volworks.com 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘘𝘶𝘢𝘥 𝘊𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘵, 𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘥𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘝𝘰𝘭𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘴 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮, 𝘩𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘴 8 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘤𝘬𝘴/𝘌𝘛𝘍𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘝𝘰𝘭𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘴 𝘊𝘰𝘳𝘦 20 𝘗𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘧𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘰. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 12 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘤𝘬𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘦𝘹𝘤𝘭𝘶𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘥𝘶𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘶𝘱𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴.