Poor Man's Covered Call: The Complete 2026 Guide (PMCC Strategy, Setup & Mistakes) covered call leaps options strategy pmcc

The poor man's covered call — the PMCC — is one of those strategies that sounds like a shortcut.

It isn't.

It's a real strategy with real rules. Trade it right, and you get the income profile of a covered call for about 20% of the capital. Trade it wrong, and you blow up faster than you would ha...

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The DPMCC Under Pressure — How the Strategy Performs in a Pullback dpmcc leaps

Today was one of those days.

Futures opened lower. Bond yields pushed higher. The market had just printed fresh all-time highs, and then suddenly the tone changed.

You know the type of day I'm talking about.

Everything feels calm for weeks, then one red day shows up and suddenly traders start sta...

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Beginner's Guide to Trading LEAPs: How to Profit with Long-Term Options leaps

LEAP options—Long-term Equity Anticipation Securities—offer traders a powerful way to generate consistent income with a longer time horizon. In this guide, I’ll break down how I trade LEAPs, specifically by selling put options, to achieve steady returns while minimizing risk.

This strategy has deli...

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