Getting Paid to Take Risk

Getting Paid to Take Risk
As a professional options trader, there are two things I will remember most as I look back at this bear market of 2008, and that is; a.) How covered call writing investors are receiving substantial option premiums to take risk and; b.) How the certainty of a "buy and hold" approach of a well diversified, structured portfolio was not spared from the devastating effects of this bear market liquidation.