If you have a self-directed IRA and are looking for ways to increase you return without increasing your risk, you may want to learn about writing covered call options. Arizona Financial Software has designed a program to help you write, analyze, and track the writing of covered call options. Based on the ALTORFER SYSTEM FOR WRITING COVERED CALL OPTIONS, this software program is a powerful risk management tool designed to provide prudent and conservative investors with one of the easiest, safest, and most profitable ways to obtain the highest return on invested capital. By using a combination of stocks and options, this system is actually just as conservative as just buying stocks.
In their booklet "The Value Line to Option Strategies", the esteemed investment service Value Line states:
"Curiously, the most attractive option strategy when returns are concerned in relation to risk is covered call writing. It provided profits over 20% a year with relative consistency and it is only about half as risky as holding a portfolio of common stocks."