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How to Sell Put Options for Income

Let’s walk through an example of how to sell a put. After careful selection of the right stock, you decide you would like to create a monthly income stream by selling puts each month on this stock. Let’s say the stock is currently trading at $70 in the market. After reviewing the option chain, you decide to sell the 67.5 put option on this stock that expires in one month. The 67.5 strike price is out of the money and will obligate you to buy the stock at $67.50 only if the put buyer decides to exercise the option on or before the expiration date. The put buyer will only exercise the option if they make money or if the stock price is below $67.50.

As the put seller (writer), you get to collect the cash premium for the option. In this case, let’s assume it is $200 per option contract or 100 shares of stock. The investor now has a risk of $67.50 – $200 = $65.50 per option contract sold. If this amount of $6550 per contract is in the investors brokerage account, this is a cash-secured put. The potential return is $200 which the put seller will keep regardless of the trade outcome.

The investors return is calculated as $200/$6550 or 3.05%. This is a nice return on a one month put option. On an annual basis, this is a return of 36.6%! This is why I sell put options for monthly income.

Here are the details of the trade:

1 Option = 100 Shares of Stock: In this example, we sold 1 put option. In other words, we sold someone the right, but not the obligation, to sell 100 shares of stock to us for $67.50 on or before the option’s one-month expiration date (usually the 3rd Friday of the month).

$ 2 = Our Options Premium: In exchange for giving someone (the put buyer) the right to sell us 100 shares of stock at $67.50, we get paid in cold-hard cash! In options lingo, we get paid in the form of a premium. In this example, our premium is $ 2 per share. Because each options contract equals 100 shares of stock, here our premium is $ 200. This $ 200 is deposited in our account at the time of the transactions. It is ours to keep no matter what transpires before expiration (the end of the contract).

There are 2 potential trade outcomes:

  1. The stock prices stays above the 67.5 option strike price so the put option expires worthless. Put yourself in the position of the options holder (the person that buys the put option from us). The put holder purchased the right, but not the obligation, to sell 100 shares of stock at $67.50 per share. Assume this put option expires in one month. If, at the end of that one-month expiration time period, the stock is trading at a price above $67.50, why would the put holder exercise his right to sell the stock at $67.50 when he can sell at a price above $67.50? They would not exercise the put option! The investor keeps the $200 premium and has a 3.05% return in one month.
  2. The stock declines in price and is below the 67.5 option strike price. The option will be exercised and the shares of stock will be sold to us at the strike price ($ 72.50 per share). Again, put yourself in the position of the put holder for a moment. If, at the time the put option is set to expire, the stock is trading at $65, and the put holder has the right to sell shares of stock at $67.50, why wouldn’t the put holder exercise his right to sell the stock at $67.50 per share? They would. So in this scenario, the cash we previously deposited into our brokerage account ($6750) is used to purchase the underlying shares that were “put” or sold to us. Our break-even point, also referred to as our “cost basis,” is now $65.50 ($67.50 per share we paid for the stock less the $ 2 per share put premium we received from the original sale of the put option). At this point, we own 100 shares of stock and can sell them or write a covered call trade.

This is a simple example of how to sell (write) a put option for monthly income. Once we do this each month we create a stream of cash flow to help us achieve financial independence.

Last month, we were successful on all put trades and averaged 3.5% return for the month.  Imagine making $3000 or more in income each month!   Start making more income each month by subscribing to the Monthly Income Plan.

Creating Multiple Income Streams with CEFs

An income investor has several investments available to create income streams. Most turn to dividend stocks and bonds to create consistent cash flows for their living expenses. While both of these investments will provide income, there are additional vehicles to produce money flows. One I like to use is closed-end funds or CEFs. These investments trade like stocks with a market price and can be easily purchased during trading hours on all stock exchanges.

Investors have nearly 400 CEFs to choose from that pay monthly distributions (see listing included). Simply, an investor can create a diversified portfolio of CEFs to create monthly income. Most investors should look at selecting five or more CEFs in different investment categories or type of objective. There are cases with investors creating numerous CEFs such as 30 funds to average one paycheck per day. I guess you can call this one check per day or daily paychecks.

The 10-year Treasury note touched its second-lowest yield before regaining some ground to finish at around 1.51%. The 30-year Treasury was offering a yield of 2.234% last week.  Those meager yields mean that despite grousing about elevated stock valuations and poor corporate quarterly results, investors aren’t finding a lot of safe options to put their money and eke out a decent return. Bespoke statisticians say 41% of stocks on the S&P 500 offer a richer yield than the so-called long bond, or 30-year note. And more than 60% pay a better yield than the benchmark 10-year note. A great alternative is investing in CEFs.

CEFs have some differences compared to stocks such as they have a publically known net asset value or NAV. The NAV is the sum value of the funds holding or intrinsic value. The CEF may trade at a market value that us different than the NAV. This makes it easy for investors to determine if the fund is trading at a premium or discount to its true value or NAV. As an investor, you want to purchase CEFs at a discount to NAV as this can be like buying a $1 of assets for $0.90 or whatever the discount to NAV. Who doesn’t want to buy funds at a discounted price or on sale!

To create a successful CEF portfolio, an investor should create a diversified portfolio of monthly paying CEFs trading at a discount to NAV. The investor can reinvest some dividends to increase their payments over time. This investing strategy can be used to replace income from employment or to supplement other types of income.

The Western Asset Emerging Markets Debt Fund (ESD) is a closed-end fund that invests in bonds issued by emerging-market governments and corporations. As income investors, we love the 8.5% yield… And as value investors, we love that the fund is available for an 13% discount to its NAV. On top of that, bonds are traditionally safer investments than stocks, even in emerging markets. ESD has an extremely diverse portfolio of 235 different holdings. Its largest country allocation, Mexico, only accounts for 13% of its portfolio. And 97% of its holdings are denominated in U.S. dollars.

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