One thing you can consider is to sell a higher strike call against your long call position.  That helps a little with time decay, particularly over a long period. With a long call/ short higher strike call position, you can also consider periodically trading in and out of the sold call position to further enhance your performance.  I've done that with shorter term options (I have never traded LEAPs), but I can't think why this wouldn't work with LEAPs.  Bid/offer spread would probably be a consideration.  If LEAPs were less liquid, trading in and out would be more expensive.  The nice thing about this strategy is that you can employ it even in tax deferred accounts (401-k/IRAs).

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