Dividend
Cash a company pays to shareholders, typically from profits, usually quarterly in the US.
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Covered calls: the whole position, not just the premium. Selling a call against stock you own puts money in your pocket today and gives something up tomorrow. Look at both halves, or the premium will look like free money when it is not.
Options from the beginning: calls, puts, and the Greeks in plain words. What a contract actually is, what the numbers on the screen mean, and why an option's value before expiration is not the same as its payoff at expiration.
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- Ex dividend date
Owners of the stock before this date receive the dividend; buyers on or after it do not.
- Qualified dividend
A dividend taxed at the lower long term capital gains rate.
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