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SO WHICH STOCKS U R RECOMMENDING? in the mining sector I HAVE SOLD PUTS ON AA AND FCX also COP AND BP... all in the last month expiration JAN 10. and 20-30% below. hence I dont mind owning them at the price at that time.

yes. Thanks for the advice.. covered calls is a bullish strategy. but the way I intend to do it. deep ITM. i am making it a neutral to bullish. Yes, a big drop in the stock will not save me, and that is also true from holding RAW stock without a call. hence I am willing to give up the...

I did edit it . with / between the columns.. could not format it better BTW, I propose to do this strategy with 30% of my STOCK portfolio.. we really dont know where the bottom is. hence atleast this allows us to be in the game. the best thing of this strategy is the stock price...

Since the VIX is nerve wracking, lots of folks are watching the roller coaster from the sidelines. I am thinking to get in with some Covered Leaps on SOLID stocks which I would like to own in the long run for example JAN 2010 is 456 days away. ie. 1.3 years. selling BP 40 Jan 2010...

IMPORTANT: Due to new Securities Exchange Commission rules, short selling on certain financial securities are not permitted from September 19, 2008 through October 2, 2008. The complete list of stocks which are unavailable for shorting can be found here. Any previous existing open orders to...

once someone mentioned zero cost option.. meaning zero percent probabilty of making a loss. ha ha now we all know that , all the taunted options strategies to make consistent income, actually dont exist. ie. do something consistently and make money on it . time after time.. the laws of...

Yes. if we know that we dont win in the CASINO , why do we keep returning.. HA HA to satisfy some primal instinct. same way here, we all have our reasons. to return, may be its the thrill of pure speculation. My reason to keep on trading Puts and calls is pure gambling. I research or...

Yup, I have to agree that this is exactly what I encountered doing in the last 10 months... I tried 10 naked puts.. and some times 10 naked calls.. each one. ONE of them would WIPE out the profits from the remaning 9.. I dont know how.. but methodically, one would come back to BITE me real...

selling puts.. what if u were selling BSC puts 2 months back.. it takes 1 bad trade to wipe you out , I have sold JNJ PEP GS and RIG naked puts-OTM. for jan 09 and they are doing well. but you never know.! I would say. also look at LEAPS and Covered calls.. Deep ITM. but that is also...

About paper trading. One thing I learnt is that, on paper. no matter how much you win or loose , it doesnot really teach you much.- or put a lasting impression on you. What I mean is that, when u have put real money on an option and then exposed to its volatility , usually on a roller...