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T. Rowe Price (TROW) Covered Call Sale – 07/22/2025
On May 15, 2025, we sold the TROW covered call at the $110 strike price, expiring last Friday, July 18. It’s time to consider renewing this option. The current chart shows the price nearing overhead resistance, and the RSI has been at or near oversold territory for several weeks. Especially since we are headed into…
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Realty Income Trust (O) Put Sale – 7/10/2025
Real Estate Investment Trusts, or REITS, are known for their generous dividends. This aspect of REITS fits in well with our income-oriented approach Back in March we attempted a put sale on CubeSmart, and today we are going to do the same on Realty Income Trust (NYSE: O), a leading REIT that is often known…
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What is a REIT?
A REIT (Real Estate Investment Trust) is a company that owns, operates, or finances income-producing real estate. REITs let regular people invest in large properties—like shopping malls, office buildings, apartments, or hotels—without having to buy or manage the property themselves. REITs are traded on major stock exchanges, just like regular company stocks. This means you…
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Realty Income REIT (O)
Realty Income (NYSE: O), an S&P 500 company, is real estate partner to the world’s leading companies. Founded in 1969, we invest in diversified commercial real estate and, as of March 31, 2025, have a portfolio of over 15,600 properties in all 50 U.S. states, the U.K., and six other countries in Europe. We are…
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Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMY) Put Sale – 7/10/2025
We last sold a put on Bristol Meyers Squibb Company (BMY), a pharmaceutical company exactly three months ago. At that time, volatility was high, and subsequently so were option premiums. Things are much more settled now. Volatility is relatively low, the market is at or near all time highs, and it is being driven primarily…
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T. Rowe Price (TROW) Covered Call Sale – 05/15/2025
The T. Rowe Price shares we are holding are offering a nice dividend of $5.22, but we can do a little better by also selling deep out of the money covered calls on the stocks we own. We generally are looking for Deltas on the covered calls we sell to be .03 to .08, with…
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PepsiCo, Inc (PEP) Put Roll – 05/15/2025
We have an open put on PepsiCo expiring tomorrow, 05/16/2025. The put is nearly $5 in the money. There’s an opportunity to roll it down that $5 for a net credit by going out a couple of months to 07/18/2025. So that’s what I did. PepsiCo raised their dividend from $5.42 to $5.69 while we…
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Palantir Technologies Inc. (PLTR)
Palantir Technologies Inc. builds and deploys software platforms for the intelligence community to assist in counterterrorism investigations and operations in the United States, the United Kingdom, and internationally. It provides Palantir Gotham, a software platform, which enables users to identify patterns hidden deep within datasets, ranging from signals intelligence sources to reports from confidential informants,…
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The Trade Desk, Inc. (TTD)
The Trade Desk, Inc. operates as a technology company in the United States and internationally. The company offers a self-service cloud-based ad-buying platform that allows buyers to plan, manage, optimize, and measure data-driven digital advertising campaigns across various ad formats and channels, including video, display, audio, digital-out-of-home, native, and social on various devices, such as…
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Shopify Inc. (SHOP)
Shopify Inc., a commerce technology company, provides tools to start, scale, market, and run a business of various sizes in Canada, the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Asia Pacific, and Latin America. The Company offers Shopify platform that enables merchants to manage products and inventory, process orders and payments, fulfill and ship…
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