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

To: Jerome who wrote (4454)	9/27/2006 12:59:56 PM
From: Bridge Player	Respond to of 5205

I've recently sold puts on WMT (45s) and DOW (35s) but in both cases buying and writing calls, and out-of-the-moneys at that, would have worked better. Sometimes when you write short puts on stocks that you think are quite cheap, when they validate your reasoning you think, "Damn. I made a few bucks but look at what I could have made!" :))

To: Jerome who wrote (4454)	9/28/2006 7:47:42 AM
From: Bridge Player	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 5205

At current prices I like Anadarko APC, Home Depot HD, and Patterson-UTI Energy PTEN as put selling candidates. Tech stocks sometimes make good candidates if one doesn't mind the risk and volatility. At various times and prices I like QCOM, SNDK, AMAT, INTC, ISRG, GRMN, CSCO, and RMBS. And I think some of the homebuilders are interesting in spite of the current feeling that the housing crash has just begun. And a couple of energy stocks: ERF and EPD. Here is an interesting board on put selling: Subject 52720