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


To: Dan Duchardt who wrote (3527)3/17/2002 4:17:31 PM
From: stockman_scott  Respond to of 5205
 
<<The reality is that during that "lucky" 20% annual gain, stocks frequently whip that far, or twice that far or more up and then down several times in a year.>>

Dan: Good point...the article did really simplify what seems to happen...sometimes its a challenge for an author to write an article that is as 'well-balanced' as all the readers would like it to be...=)

regards,

-Scott



To: Dan Duchardt who wrote (3527)3/17/2002 4:39:58 PM
From: Uncle Frank  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 5205
 
>> as if you could do that without taking a loss on the calls and somehow being assured that your future participation in the stock would be to realize further gains.

Your comments bring back some unhappy memories. Buying back cc's I had written on ntap was one of the costliest mistakes I made in 2001. To this day I can't figure out how Dr. Id convinced me to do it.

:-)
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