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Monthly Archives: September 2008
ETF Covered Calls 09-29-2008
Just heard on the late night news that Bush is planning on speaking tomorrow morning at 0700 and that makes me think that the stock market will be closed tomorrow. We’ll see what happens, I don’t see any point of … Continue reading
Posted in ETF Cashinator, ETF-Putinator
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Trade – Sell DUGJP
I just sold 5 October $42 (DUGJP) contracts for $2.65 to rake in about $1300.00. The goal here is to hopefully be called and force a sale of my shares at $42 even though I purchased them at $43.50. Here’s … Continue reading
Posted in Arbitrage Account Trades
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ETF Covered Calls 09-26-2008
With 21 days till October expiry, the market continues to be erratic and that means every ETF has high yielding covered call opportunities. There are five pages of ETF’s listed and like last week, you need to choose your poison … Continue reading
Posted in ETF Cashinator, ETF-Putinator
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Trade – Buy To Close DUGJQ
I just bought back the 5 contracts for $0.80 that I sold last week for $4.30. I actually made the 80% profit threshold I wrote about recently and decided to buy the contracts back. I sold them for $2141 and … Continue reading
Posted in Arbitrage Account Trades
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September 2008 Expiry Update
Here’s an update on my current positions. Arbitrage Account: Own 800 400 XHB @ cost of $22.72 (400 @ $22.72, 400 @ $19.80) : XHB closed at $22.33 (position at -$156.00) : Cash Flow $2,058 Note: 400 shares of XHB … Continue reading
Posted in Expiry Update
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The 80% Options Rule
Over the past few months, the volatility in the markets has created an interesting opportunity and I’ve been considering adjusting my ETF Covered Call strategy slightly. As a general rule, I usually hold the options through options expiry and wait … Continue reading
Posted in ETF Cashinator
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ETF Covered Calls 09-19-2008
The market isn’t crazy any more, it’s bipolar schizophrenic and deadly. Fortunately, many of my calls got assigned as XHB, SDS and QID are now off my hands and I’m sitting in cash. I’ll post an update this weekend on … Continue reading
Posted in ETF Cashinator, ETF-Putinator
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Trade – Buy/Write DUG/DUGJQ
I bought 500 shares of DUG at $43.50 and sold 5 October $43 strikes for $4.30 to rake in about $2150. This represents a 10% return in 30 days till October expiry if I don’t get called and 9% if … Continue reading
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ETF Covered Calls 09-12-08
Another crazy stock market week. WAMU is on the verge of having it’s stock head to zero. Lehman is being shopped around so things may get ugly here for a bit. UYG is still tempting but SKF still shows … Continue reading
Posted in ETF Cashinator, ETF-Putinator
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ETF Covered Calls 09-05-08
It’s been a very volatile week and will likely continue on to next week with what I’m seeing on the ETF-Cashinator. Here are this weeks ETF-Cashinator picks… ETF Covered Calls website is for educational and entertainment purposes only. Any investment … Continue reading
Posted in ETF Cashinator, ETF-Putinator
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