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

To: AnnaInVA who wrote (2679)	10/14/2001 1:10:02 PM
From: Uncle Frank	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5205

>> since the margin requirement for writing the naked put is really not that significant, this is definitely the best way to go. It may very well be, but being short puts can be very uncomfortable if the stock happens to take a dramatic dive, something we've witnessed all too often over the past 19 months. In fact, though the reward profile for writing puts and writing calls is very similar, the risk with shorting puts is so much larger that Roth defines the appropriate underlying assumption as "bullish to very bullish". imho (and Roth's), duf