Covered Call Strategist (Remote, Funded Options Trader) — Denver, CO

A covered call strategist at Maverick runs an income overlay on firm equity holdings. The role isn't about picking the next moonshot stock — it's about managing a portfolio of quality names and systematically generating premium against them. Done well, the strategy compounds an equity portfolio's return without taking on the open-ended risk of naked short calls.

Denver, CO: Denver has become one of the fastest-growing financial centers in the Mountain West — Janus Henderson, DST Systems, and several wealth-management firms are based here. The tech sector has expanded rapidly with companies like Palantir relocating headquarters. Mountain Time gives a 7:30am market open with a clean afternoon.

Covered calls on firm-held equity positions, predominantly large-cap dividend-paying names and quality growth stocks. Some traders also run cash-secured puts on names they would be willing to own — the "wheel" approach — to enter equity positions at a discount.

Covered calls cap upside on the underlying — that's the trade. The risk is leaving large gains on the table when overwritten strikes are blown through. Maverick traders manage this by tiered coverage (only writing against a portion of a position) and by sizing call strikes based on the underlying's expected move and the trader's directional view.

Covered call programs are a legitimate institutional strategy run by major asset managers. The retail version is often poorly executed — wrong strikes, wrong sizing, wrong expirations. Maverick funds traders who run the strategy with institutional discipline against firm capital.

Traders who already think in portfolio terms — not single-position P&L

People comfortable with a strategy whose returns are bounded but steady

Candidates with a value-investing or income-investing background

Traders who can resist the urge to chase higher premium by selling deep-ITM or far-OTM calls