Stocks for Rent: Exercising Your Options With Covered Calls

Saturday, January 24th, 2009

 Buying and selling shares of stock is pretty straightforward investing, but what else can you do with your stock portfolio? How about renting it out?

Covered-call investing is a lot like buying and selling stocks, but with one major difference: You are not selling your stock outright; you are selling someone the right to buy your shares at a certain price. (more…)