Actually if stock is at $500 after a period of increase ( say it is now much above the MDA 50) you add a certain margin of safety that Ziv calls "insurance" (say 10%) and sell a call at 550 to be extra safe. So no, you donot sell at 500. That's too "unsafe".
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