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Calls and Puts for Income

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4491	Delfino, will have to reread that chapter and I don't have book here. Will a	Mario :-)	-	7/27/2010
4490	<i>Why Leaps rather than front month or near term? Time value evaporates m	upanddown	2	7/26/2010
4489	<i>acquiring dividend paying stocks through put sales and then waiting for	skinowski	-	7/26/2010
4488	Mario Selling puts is the most puzzling aspect of option trading for my curren	Delfino R Zavala	-	7/26/2010
4487	Jerome has not posted for 3 months. I do hope he is just on a long vacation ?	Gottfried	-	7/24/2010
4486	<< Remember, you also sell Puts, if you want to buy the stock at a discoun	Mario :-)	-	7/24/2010
4485	<i>By the same logic, shouldn't you also employ tight stops on the sho	upanddown	-	7/24/2010
4484	I prefer your original remark: that what you will do if the unexpected happens	tyc:>	-	7/24/2010
4483	>>I usually use tight stops on acquired stock to minimize losses if the st	tyc:>	-	7/24/2010
4482	Remember, you also sell Puts, if you want to buy the stock at a discount. John	jhs565	1	7/24/2010
4481	<i>Exercise of a short put usually implies a loss and the threat of even g	upanddown	-	7/24/2010
4480	tyc, sometimes there is 'strong support' just under the put strike. I th	Gottfried	-	7/24/2010
4479	I guess it falls under the heading of "cut your losses short". And th	tyc:>	-	7/24/2010
4478	tyc, re ><i>one should avoid the exercise of a short put.</i><	Gottfried	1	7/24/2010
4477	How stupid of me ! My error is the failure to distinguish between the exercise	tyc:>	-	7/24/2010
4476	Opening position WFR updated 07/23/10 05/03/10 Bot 2500 WFR 13.19 05/03/10 Sol	dealmakr	-	7/24/2010
4475	Gosh, this is getting complicated :-) Thank you, never thought of this. Need to	Mario :-)	-	7/23/2010
4474	<i>double the shares or none </i> That's true, but unless the s	The Vet	-	7/22/2010
4473	Vet, the way I understand it,you either have double the shares or none, if Put t	jhs565	-	7/22/2010
4472	What I didn't make clear in that example, is that as the time value will dec	The Vet	-	7/22/2010
4471	Thanks Gottfried John	jhs565	-	7/22/2010
4470	The Vet, thanks for your example. I'm doing the same thing with a portion of	Gottfried	-	7/22/2010
4469	Vet: Thanks for the example.	howto	-	7/22/2010
4468	Howard, here an example.. This isn't especially good or bad but it is curre	The Vet	1	7/22/2010
4467	>>"There is NO margin requirement at all for a Covered Call" If	tyc:>	-	7/22/2010

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