Income Portfolio – New Position – GOLD Covered Call

Barrick Gold Corporation (GOLD) earnings are coming in a few weeks and we see this stock has been bottoming out and very near the 50 SMA. We are expecting good earnings and stock to move up a bit and so have opened up a covered call position.

BUY400TO OPENGOLD16.66STOCK16.19DEBIT25INC-004
SELL-4TO OPENGOLD21-FEB-2517CALL0.47

Breakeven is around $16.18 and we have around 21 days for the sold call to expire. If the stock remains above $17, we can get called out with around 5% return.