Established New Covered Call on Dow Inc.

On October 08, 2021, I bought 100 shares with Dow Inc. stock paying $58.5 per share, and simultaneously sold 1 covered call on these shares with a strike price of $59 and expiry next Friday. Credit received $61 (before commissions)

Dow Inc. is an American commodity chemical company. It was spun off DowDuPont on April 1, 2019, at which time it became a public company and was added to the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The company is headquartered in Midland, Michigan.

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This trade comes as the #8 in the month of October, according to my trading plan for this month, the premium generated from this trade makes me about 9.66% of my $600 monthly goal.  While in total I have reached already 18.83% so far. Awesome!

Dow Inc. has been on my radar for some time already, I like this stock because it’s the part form the Dow Jones index, has a relatively high dividend yield and options premiums are quite juicy (at least for now)

Here I made a quick YouTube video

In short, the idea is to hold this stock at least for one year by selling weekly options

here is the trade setup:

• BOT 100 DOW Stock 58.5USD

• SLD 1 DOW OCT 15 '21 59 Call Option 0.61 USD

I bought 100 shares at $58.5 apiece, in total paying $5,850, and sold a covered call with next week’s expiry.

It feels I bought this stock at the right moment, as during the trading session price moved quite a bit

$58.5 seems like nice timing, as just shortly the price bounced back, let’s see how the stock is going to perform in the upcoming weeks/months.

What happens next?

On the expiry date, October 15, 2021, DOW is trading under $59 per share -  options expire worthlessly and I keep premium - if DOW trades above $59 on the expiry date, my 100 shares will get called away and I realize my max profit $111 ($50+$61) or potential 1.89% yield in 7 days.

Break-even price: $58.5-0.61= $57.89

It is interesting to note that stock analysts are giving the following forecast for DOW stock:

The 21 analysts offering 12-month price forecasts for Dow Inc have a median target of 69.00, with a high estimate of 85.00 and a low estimate of 54.00. The median estimate represents a +17.21% increase from the last price of 58.87.

When looking at technicals RSI or Relative strength index we are in the neutral territory now:

It will be interesting to see how this challenge will end in a year.