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Personal Finance and Investing

truddy777

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Reply to 3Hotdogs (Original post)

Wed Aug 27, 2025, 09:31 AM

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Selling short-dated calls on something not too volatile usually means steady premiums without crazy swings. Only thing I’d watch is the buy-to-close part - you might eat into your gains if you’re closing too often. Some folks are fine just letting shares get called and then rebuying if they still like the fund.

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Selling covered calls. I am interested in selling covered calls for the Russell 2000. [View all] 3Hotdogs Jun 23 OP

You said a single share in the "fund" is $250K A HERETIC I AM Jun 25 #1

Symbol is RUT. Google Russe3ll 2000 option chain. 3Hotdogs Jun 25 #2

OK, we were talking past each other. A HERETIC I AM Jun 26 #3

I used the term, fund, rather than index, in the hope of getting more people to respond. 3Hotdogs Jun 26 #4

. truddy777 Yesterday #5

Thx. I have been rethinking this. Maybe better with S & P covered calls. 3Hotdogs 19 hrs ago #6