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Calls and Puts for Income
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4366willy, at least with covered calls you can cover the calls at a profit as the stGottfried-7/7/2010
4365If you're doing that, try iron condors and make premiums on both sides. I trwilywilly17/7/2010
4364Mario, my biggest losses in the last 2 years came from selling naked puts. The sGottfried-7/7/2010
4363"Rolling puts forward may be viewed as simply putting off the day of reckonwilywilly-7/7/2010
4362Thank you Vet (and Dinesh) Will start with study & paper trading and tryingMario :-)-7/7/2010
4361Thank you! Those that I have, focus on majority strategies. Just to confuse meMario :-)-7/7/2010
4360I posted this a while back and am about halfway through reading these; Ron Groedealmakr -7/7/2010
4359>book There is a rather nice book by McMilian on options trading. At 1001 paDinesh-7/7/2010
4358I don't know any books that concentrate on selling (or writing) cash coveredThe Vet-7/7/2010
4357<< Selling puts is my most common bullish trade. >> More I'm reMario :-)-7/6/2010
4356Delfino, Re: 'I have 20 put contracts for XOM Jul 62.50 strike price' kaka-7/6/2010
4355<i> I noticed you do a lot of Put selling </i> Selling puts is my mThe Vet-7/6/2010
4354Vet I noticed you do a lot of Put selling. Do you buy lower strike prices to lDelfino R Zavala-7/6/2010
4353Kaka I have 20 put contracts for XOM Jul 62.50 strike price that I sold about 1Delfino R Zavala-7/6/2010
4352New positions sold NEM Aug 21 2010 55.0 Put Net credit $1.78 ABX Aug 21 2010 42.The Vet-7/6/2010
4351New position today.... Sold POT Aug 21 2010 85.0 Put Net Credit $5.25 Rolled foThe Vet-7/6/2010
4350Rolling close to expiry gives you the most gain, but if the position is in the mThe Vet-7/6/2010
4349Delfino, Which XOM strike are your short puts?kaka-7/6/2010
4348Vet I have some XOM puts I want to rollout to Jan 2011. It looks like I can geDelfino R Zavala-7/5/2010
4347Hi Jeff, Its a tough market to trade from the NP side right now and you have todealmakr 17/4/2010
4346Thanks for your posts. I'm not doing much right now, unfortunately. >eomJeffry K. Smith-7/3/2010
4345Opening position WFR updated 07/02/10 05/03/10 Bot 2500 WFR 13.19 05/03/10 Soldealmakr -7/3/2010
4344Bot Close 25 DELL Jul 12 Put .27 (-.05) Sold open 20 AKS Jul 12 Put .50 Ugly madealmakr -6/29/2010
4343Opening position WFR updated 06/25/10 05/03/10 Bot 2500 WFR 13.19 05/03/10 Soldealmakr -6/26/2010
4342Open options positions 06/25/10 Short 50 AKS Jul 12 Put .20 Short 30 BAX Nov 37dealmakr -6/26/2010
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