🐶 Introduction: Why I Like Covered Calls When I own 100 shares of a good company, one of the strategies I like to consider is selling a covered call. @Shernice軒嬣 2000 The reason is simple: owning 100 shares gives me the ability to sell one call option against those shares and collect an option premium. For a beginner, the important thing to understand is that I am not trying to predict every movement in the stock market. Markets can move because of earnings, interest rates, tariffs, Trump announcements, geopolitical events, economic data, analyst upgrades, product launches and unexpected bad news. There will always be something that moves the market. Instead of simply holding my shares and watching the price move up and down, I c