Defensive Investing: Covered Calls Increase Cash Flow, Up Protection

Once you get beyond buying puts or calls for purely speculative purposes, no other options strategy is more popular than selling covered calls -...

Inflation Isn't Dead, Just Sleeping - And TIPS Can Protect You When It Awakens


Investors are always on the lookout for hot tips. The best tips highlight investments that pack a big potential profit punch, but that ...

How to Use Stock Options to Insure Your Holdings Against Short-Term Pullbacks

Stock options are among the most versatile tools available to investors. They can be used as a low-cost way to speculate on expected price...

Defensive Investing: Seven Signs Your Dividend is in Trouble

Both the U.S. stock market and the U.S. economy are navigating rough waters right now.

U.S. employment, which had appeared to be moving...

Defensive Investing: Defeat Market Volatility With an Options-Straddle Strategy

It's often said the stock market can deal with anything but uncertainty, but uncertainty is about all the U.S. stock market has to feed on these...

Defensive Investing: Four Reasons to Sell a Mutual Fund Laggard

When it comes to poor performance in a mutual fund, how long is too long?

Evaluating the performance of a mutual fund is a bit different...

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