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

To: J F Allen who wrote (888)	6/1/2001 11:57:43 PM
From: FaultLine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 5205

When I write covered calls I assume the buyer is a very sophisticated hedge fund manager with more market information than I have and better analysis tools. That certainly sounds like a cautious approach but how in the world can you rationalize any sort of action under these seemingly adverse circumstances? I think I'd just talk myself into paralysis -- a sort of "writer's cramp". <g> I do, however, recall your May 10 comments and should probably spent some time familiarizing myself with your methods. I sell only OTM front month calls, 10 contracts minimum. I do use technical analysis (rudimentary) Bolinger Bands and trend lines to time my sales. I recently bought a TA for Dummies sort of book -- I'll crack it this weekend and take a look (are you listening JohnM?). Thanks for your suggestion on the Murphy post : Message 15879125 Do you have any interesting JUN or JUL observations ? --Ken/fl