I have written several posts on dividend capture strategies.

My favored, although far from perfect strategy:

Dividend capture with covered calls

Some approaches I don’t recommend:

SPY dividend capture ideas that don’t work

Dividend capture—three approaches to skip

Additional background and tools, and an example:

Dividend capture overview

Covered calls–are you ready?

Combo orders–maximizing profits on covered calls

DIA dividend capture: creating the position

DIA dividend capture: position close out

More questions about dividends?  See Top 10 questions about dividends.

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