The Winning Covered Calls Strategy You Didn't Know Existed Hans Albrecht, 30 years trading options, including 15 as a professional market maker, and a decade managing $1B in income funds.

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Welcome to The Cash Machine, my covered calls cash flow system. It's my point-and-click dashboard that puts the strike where the trend says it belongs.

Follow my own portfolio in real time, with all trades shown and alerted as I make them. Or enter any stock symbol to find the best trade to make.

The problem isn't selling premium. It's selling at the wrong time.

Most strategies do the same thing, no matter the market. Cash Machine is a dynamic, rules-based covered call system built to get the most out of whatever the market is offering for options income. Conditions never stop shifting, so neither does the Cash Machine system.

I've traded volatility and priced options for a living. This is how I put three decades of in-the-trenches options trading to work for you.

I spent 15 years as a pro options market maker, then over a decade managing nearly $1 billion across covered call income funds and black swan downside-protection strategies. I've generated over $750 million in options cash flow for members and investors around the world. That's the Cash Machine difference.

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Named an All-Star of Options Trading. Headline lecturer on volatility and options trading for the CFA Society and the MoneyShow. Quoted in hundreds of mainstream articles, and a writer for top financial newspapers.

I built and managed covered call income funds, and won a prestigious Fund Lipper Award for one of them. Two economics degrees, including an Ivy League Masters.

Hans Albrecht on BNN Bloomberg, The Open
BNN Bloomberg, The Open
TMX interview with Hans Albrecht on generating income using options
TMX and the Montréal Exchange, on income with options
Hans Albrecht on TD Ameritrade Network, Market Rally
TD Ameritrade Network, Market on Close
Hans Albrecht on TD Ameritrade Network with his ASML stock pick
TD Ameritrade Network, Morning Trade Live

Why most covered call trades leave money on the table.

I'm tired of the way covered calls are presented. I didn't like it when I spent a decade managing nearly a billion dollars of them, and I don't like it now.

You've heard the rental property line. Own the building, rent out the apartments, collect the cheque. That story is only halfway there at best.

The other half: most covered call programs do the same thing every month, in every market, even when the stock is doing exactly what it was bought to do. That's called getting in the way of your own success.

So why do those products do it? Because it's easy to run, easy to market to clients, and easy to explain to an advisor. It's lazy. Those funds are built for gathering assets, not for getting the most out of income selling.

Their fee is charged on the cash you give them, not on their results. They make money on fees. You want to make money for you. That's a misalignment of goals.

The options market is structurally unforgiving of blind call selling: sure, the premium is real, but so is the upside you hand over. Lots of edge? Great. No edge? Run away.

Calls tend to be cheap. Seriously. Almost everyone overwrites them and almost nobody buys them. Sell them passively every month regardless of pricing, and you keep most of the downside while giving away the upside for less than it's worth. Free money? Rarely, if you zoom out, and your money deserves the bigger picture.

The truth is that income edge isn't something you're entitled to. You identify it, and pounce on it. The right tools make that easy, and give you the insight to outperform the other options "experts"... you know, the ones who only play one on YouTube.

“I sat in hundreds of meetings where the yield was set by what would sell more of the fund. The performance of the fund almost never came up.”
On a decade running covered call income funds
Illustration: a rising stock against a sold call strike, with the move above the strike given away Premium collected Strike sold, same as every month The move you gave away Illustration, not a performance record
On a stock that's stalled, fine. On the stock that's working, the one carrying the account, that sold call gobbles up the move you were waiting for.

The right option to trade belongs to the options edge and the chart, not the calendar.

Green, yellow, red. It couldn't be any easier, with my CMI (Cash Machine Indicator) and a suite of indicators that do the work for you.

Always know where the edge is.

Cash Machine answers the same question each day: what call sale does today's environment support, if any?

Dynamic: insight and data-driven

When a strong name starts to fade, the call method shifts. It can move closer, or farther away, or disappear entirely if the pricing environment is simply poor. My years of pricing options and trading volatility arbitrage go into a point-and-click answer that you can rely on.

Don't fight the market, let it do the work FOR you

You've worked hard for your ideas and your thesis. You don't put yourself in risk markets to truncate the upside and keep most of the downside. Covered calls have a place, but only when the risk-reward is in your favour, and risk includes the risk of not participating.

Where the strike goes

In the moneyOut of the money
Green
Strong and still running. A conservative call, if any.
Light yellow
Starting to slow and/or nice pricing. A small call.
Dark yellow
Upside fade. Don't trade hope, trade edge.
Red
Challenged. The 1% sleep-at-night method.

Randomly selling a covered call is a trade. Cash Machine is a system: it's how you turn the market's fear and greed into an advantage.

Follow the easy step-by-step framework to optimize your covered call trading.

Trade covered calls like a market maker.

The morning pageIllustration
NVDANo call this monthDoing what you bought it for.
DELLFar call, NovStarting to slow. Upside skew rich.
COSTClose call, OctUpside leaving.
MUDeep in the money, OctNo edge. The 1% sleep-at-night method.

Follow my covered call income portfolio in real-time or choose your own stocks for trades.

The Cash Machine scanner, names by band
The scanner
The Cash Machine sector momentum board
The momentum board

Test your own trade ideas: Type in any name and get the rundown: what looks compelling for income right now, and the recommended trade.

The Cash Machine single-name rundown
The single-name rundown

Sorry, market makers, I was one of you, but now I answer to my members.

What membership includes.

The scanner
The scanner universe of stocks scanned daily, with the strike the method points to on each. Have your own stocks? No problem, type them in and find a menu of income and hedge trades, with a recommended strike and month that conform to the company and market environment.
The Hedge Sizer
When the market gets angry, there's a button for that. A feature you won't find anywhere else: I ran black swan downside-protection funds, and getting nervous and protecting the book is part of my DNA. Invest, grab income, protect against the unknown.
My own portfolio
Up to ten names, managed in real time, with every strike decision shown as I make it. Email and community alerts. And a full Trade Desk with all positions.
The income trading community
Where I spend my time answering questions and talking shop. One room, one login, alerts in a fixed format.
One class a month
Trade reviews, market updates, trends in option pricing, one-on-one with me (Hans).
Options boot camp
The intro course, for anyone who has never sold a call.
Onboarding
A getting-started video and a Cash Machine workshop.

Built where performance was the scoreboard.

30 years in the trading trenches

  1. 15 yearsPro options market maker on the exchange floor and desk, setting the prices for options and LEAPS.
    Hans on the trading floor
    On the floor.
    Newspaper photo of Hans at his post on the exchange floor
    In the papers, at the post.
  2. A decadeNearly $1B across 12 income and black swan ETFs. Fund Lipper Award.
    Hans on BNN Bloomberg as portfolio manager and options strategist, on covered calls
    On BNN Bloomberg as covered call manager.
    Lipper Fund Awards trophy
    Income Fund Lipper Award.
    Hans on Nasdaq TradeTalks for Horizons ETFs
    Nasdaq TradeTalks.
  3. TodayOptions With Hans. Over $750 million in options cash flow for members and investors.
    Hans Albrecht
    Cash Machine.

What members say.

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“Hans, you're it. I've spent over $120 thousand on options courses over the last six years. Coaching, indicators, all of it. I don't even need one full hand to name how many people I actually trust in this space, and literally you're at the top of the list.”

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