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Selling Puts: Have Cash Will Travel

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1035	<i>...what are doing to hedge your NP portfolio, if anything?...</i>	Tom K.	-	1/25/2000
1034	Thanks for your opinion. The problem with high RSI stocks remaining there is w	David Lind	-	1/25/2000
1033	"buying a put on a severely overbought stock or two" this is logical	taxman	-	1/25/2000
1032	Tom, what are doing to hedge your NP portfolio, if anything? I have establishe	David Lind	-	1/25/2000
1031	I've only played the stocks and long calls. I don't have the balls to	David Lind	-	1/25/2000
1030	please see #reply-12672936 for my reply.	OX	-	1/25/2000
1029	Of course I have a limit to what I can make from my present position. But the	tyc:>	-	1/25/2000
1028	look at visx (100 to below 30 pronto). it was thought to be indestructible. i	taxman	-	1/25/2000
1027	"stock..put...at...$15. ...I would be delighted." fine, but wouldn&#	taxman	-	1/25/2000
1026	Hey, which way does it blow ? !! The stock is corrently trading just above 17	tyc:>	-	1/25/2000
1025	"If my bias is correct" what if it's not? i mean what if you re	taxman	-	1/25/2000
1024	No that wouldn't do at all ! You know what I think of naked puts !! To be	tyc:>	-	1/25/2000
1023	ok. now taking that example: short 1 call, short 1 put, long 100 shares. l	taxman	-	1/25/2000
1022	Sure ! I can do anything else. Even buy some calls at a different strike ! A	tyc:>	-	1/25/2000
1021	so what you are saying is that in addition to: 1 selling a call; and 2 sellin	taxman	-	1/25/2000
1020	<<"the percentage is above 75%" i'll accept that. and furt	tyc:>	-	1/25/2000
1019	well CSCO just pulled BACK to support, and i doubt they will miss..but..if they	Jerry Olson	-	1/25/2000
1018	Everyone... at the risk of holding a party and not having anyone show up... I&	OX	-	1/25/2000
1017	did you play the stock itself or options? of course some people play a naked p	taxman	-	1/25/2000
1016	you're probably right. "the percentage is above 75%" i'll ac	taxman	-	1/25/2000
1015	RE: Earnings reports. A very interesting subject. As a position trader, I p	David Lind	-	1/25/2000
1014	i agree. it gets very scary when ppl think stocks only go up, up, up. I under	OX	-	1/25/2000
1013	It is limited gain ONLY if you consider the straddle in isolation. I consider	tyc:>	-	1/25/2000
1012	taxman... actually i have found, and others have backtested this result...most	Jerry Olson	-	1/25/2000
1011	are you selling straddles? if so, isn't that a limited gain, unlimited los	taxman	-	1/25/2000

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