Dear Income Investor Before we go any further, let’s make sure you are at the right place. If you nod your head “yes” to each of the following statements, you will be very glad you’re here because SaferTrader and the Monthly Income Machine were designed specifically for you! I want more monthly income – much […]

When using option credit spreads to generate monthly income, you need to place a stop loss order to establish a MRA (maximum risk amount) for every trade. In previous articles we covered protective stop orders for credit spreads in terms of money management (Account Money Management – Avoid Account Death), and with respect to alternatives […]

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From time to time, the markets will begin a period of unusually low volatility. When this occurs, it can be more difficult to identify attractive income-generating credit spread trades that meet “The Monthly Income Machine” premium requirement at the strike prices the prescribed distance from the underlying stock, ETF, or index. So let me weigh […]

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Recently, the use of Weekly Options has generated more SaferTrader.com “how and when to use” questions, emails and members-only Forum commentary than most other subjects. In this “white paper,” we’ll look more closely at the opportunities and pitfalls associated with this intriguing investment instrument. The Appendix at the end of this article provides a list […]

I’m often asked what stocks, indexes and ETF’s I use for generating my own monthly income credit spread and Iron Condor option trades. The book “The Monthly Income Machine” spells out a technique and a series of specific qualifying “entry criteria” that must be met for an underlying stock or index to be used properly […]

As it should be, the main trade management focus of “The Monthly Income Machine” is on properly handling the occasional position going the wrong way. But we should also consider the pleasant matter of what to do with the winners – allow them to expire worthless so that we realize the entire trade profit, or […]

Often, the markets themselves provide the best reminders of why we need to use all of the “Monthly Income Machine” entry rules when establishing our income-generating credit spreads and Iron Condors. Now one of the many advantages that credit spreads offer includes the fact that they are essentially non-directional – i.e. we don’t care if […]

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