Writing covered calls on stocks you already own can be an attractive way to pick up extra income. However, we don’t recommend the strategy on stocks you wouldn’t want to own in the first place. For example, we believe Cisco Systems is a relatively unattractive dividend stock, and we are not interested in owning Cisco just so we can write covered calls on it. We believe there are more attractive options for increasing income, and we’ve highlighted four of them in this article.