In yesterday’s essay, I revealed an unusual investment technique my readers use to regularly generate 10%-20% income streams on their retirement savings.

Reader feedback tells me this strategy is a godsend for folks who thought they had to settle for the tiny yields of conventional CDs and bonds.

This strategy is called “selling covered calls.”

If you’re not familiar with this strategy, I encourage you to read yesterday’s essay.

[ad#Google Adsense 336×280-IA]For many folks, learning this strategy (and other safe option strategies) is like walking out of a dark cave and into the sunlight.

I know it was for me when I learned it years ago working for Goldman Sachs.

Over the years, I’ve taught this technique to friends, family members, and readers. Each time I teach it, I urge folks to keep in mind a key factor that ensures they collect not just double-digit yields on their savings… but SAFE double-digit yields…

That key is to use this strategy on the world’s safest, best stocks… especially stocks that “prove” their worth to shareholders by paying steadily increasing dividends.

You see, many people make the mistake of using the market’s riskiest stocks in their covered call programs.

Remember, in a covered call position, you’re receiving cash upfront for agreeing to sell your shares at a higher price sometime in the future. The reason people gravitate toward selling covered calls on risky stocks is simple: You can collect more money upfront.

Risky stocks – like a high-growth restaurant chain or a mining stock – are more volatile than blue chips like Intel or Johnson & Johnson. Since option prices are greater on volatile stocks, the “cash upfront” on covered call payments are larger.

Thus, many people buy risky stocks, sell covered calls against them, and think they’re going to make a fortune. They might collect a 10% premium by selling a call option, but when something goes wrong with their risky stock, it plunges 25%. The whole position results in an overall loss of 15%.

I don’t like losing. And I certainly don’t want to see a stock in my retirement account go down 25% in a short time.

That’s why, when it comes to selling covered calls, I stick to shareholder-friendly, dividend-paying stocks. I’m talking about stocks like Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), Intel (INTC), and Microsoft (MSFT). These companies dominate their industries, have reliable cash flows, and pay consistently rising dividends.

While there’s no guarantee these blue chips won’t decline in price, they are the steadiest stocks in the world. Last summer, for example, these basic dividend-payers “sailed” through the market panic. While many riskier stocks fell by 25%-50%, blue-chip dividend-payers held steady.

Most stock investors were panicking. Meanwhile, anyone who held a covered call position in safe blue-chip dividend-payers could simply sit back, collect dividends and cash premiums, and sleep well at night.

And safe dividend streams act as a “magnet” that draws share prices higher over the long term. An index of the world’s best dividend-payers is well over its 2007 highs… while the benchmark S&P 500 stock index is still well below its peak.

Many retirees can’t afford to settle for the meager yields offered by regular CDs and bonds. They need to collect a larger income stream, and unconventional investments like covered calls can help… But you don’t want your investments to keep you up at night.

By centering your covered call strategy around reliable, blue-chip, dividend-paying businesses, you get the best of both worlds.

Here’s to our health, wealth, and a great retirement,

Doc Eifrig

P.S. I recently put together a full report that explains everything you need to know to get started generating double-digit income streams – safely – using covered calls. This strategy makes up part of a unique money management system that not one stock broker in a 1,000 will ever tell you about. To learn the details of this “plan,” and to start collecting large amounts of investment income immediately, click here.

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Source: Daily Wealth