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Strategies & Market Trends : Options 201: Beyond Obi-Wan-Kenobe -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dan Duchardt who wrote (713)	1/12/2003 9:54:21 AM
From: jt101	Respond to of 1064

Dan, I had switched completely to e-minis for some time, now I am back to 'options and e-minis'. The sad part of e-minis (in my case), though I was right quite often, I was getting killed by my stop loss triggers.... Now I am short naked calls on QQQ JAN27, I got a premium of 55 cents, a few days before. Now they are back at that price. I am planning to either to buy QQQ at $27.50 OR buy NQ future contracts (NQ/QQQ : 1/800) around 1105. I am also short COF JAN 35 puts, but they are covered by my long COF FEB 37.5 puts. So I think I can handle that situation...

To: Dan Duchardt who wrote (713)	1/12/2003 11:05:23 PM
From: jt101	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1064

Dan, I saw your post on the MITA thread, but as I am not able to follow many threads due to lack of time, I am asking you here... You said, <<It happens that the S&P 500 has completed that trip on a monthly chart going back to 1950 (as far back as I can get from Yahoo data). The average annualized rate of return over that period is 7.27%>> <<For the Dow going back to 1930 the average rate of return is 6.24% with the current mean at 6236. (The point to point annualized rate of return from January 1950 to now is 7.14%, comparable to the average rate for the S&P.)>> Is the return after inflation? Because, I remember reading, (in Barrons?), between 1966 and 1980 even though the index values remained the same, with inflation they were down by about 80-90%