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Strategies & Market Trends : The Covered Calls for Dummies Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Uncle Frank who wrote (311)	4/29/2001 12:24:32 PM
From: BDR	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 5205

<<. . .calendar spreads. . . that leverage comes at the price of substantially increased risk, I've avoided them. . .>> So have I, but I find them interesting and am trying to understand them better. The risk (capital outlay for the long option) is reduced by the short position. I think I have a pretty good handle on covered call writing but it certainly wasn't the most effective method of dealing with the sell off over the last year, so I am trying to develop my own inventory of investing tools.