Covered Call Strategist (Remote, Funded Options Trader) — Milwaukee, WI

Milwaukee, WI:

Milwaukee hosts Northwestern Mutual's headquarters, Robert W. Baird (one of the largest middle-market investment banks), and Fiserv. The financial-services labor market is stronger than the metro's size suggests, and Central Time alignment with US markets is clean.

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