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Continuous Positions
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I updated my trading plan today with a new strategy for long term positions. For each underlying company, I will maintain a single continuous position, alternating between Covered Calls (CC) and Cash Secured Puts (CSP). Positions will only be closed when the company no longer meets my requirements.
There were several reasons for this change.
1) It provides an easier method for tracking how well a particular underlying company is performing. I used to track closed positions, but then I lost sight of how each company was performing. Going back to look at each individual closed position for a c...
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Health care reform update: Look for an overhaul that gives Congress flexibility
Filed under: Forecasts, Politics  Health care reform's long and winding road continues, as debate will begin soon on several bills in the House and Senate. Each chamber is likely to approve a bill, with the all-important conference committee set to reconcile the two after each chamber's vote.
Let's put on the old political science hat for a moment to see if history and research can tell us anything about the likely shape of the health care reform bill at this stage of the U.S. public policy process.
The House, Senate, and conference committee (CC) outcomes are labeled: Probable, Possible, Doub...
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TLT-TBT Pair - New Position
A portion of my covered call portfolio is allocated to fixed income investments, for which I've chosen iShares Trust Barclays 20 Year Treasury Bond Fund
(TLT). Some members of the JustCoveredCalls Yahoo Group use ProShares UltraShort Lehman 20 plus Year Treasury (TBT), which corresponds to twice the daily inverse of TLT.
Last year I experimented with pairs trading using DIA-DXD, by doing a covered call (CC) paper trade. I discovered that DXD, which is twice the daily inverse of DIA, had quite a bit of tracking error over the long term, and as such was not a good long term ETF to own.
However,...
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Returns as of Sep 2009
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The format of this report has been simplified and includes the Expiration Results, Total Return Since Inception, Year-to-Date Return, and Yearly Returns. Performance is based on a Working Capital Model (see Definition of Terms at the bottom of this report). Market value, while reported, is less important than the income generated by the assets in the portfolio.
<u>Options Expiration Report for Sep 2009</u>
After returning from a two week vacation at the end of August, I had a lot of catching up to do at work, so I didn't have much time to tend to my covered call (CC) portfolio. I had a 3 CC p...
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MMM - New Position
A new dividend position was established today on 3M Company (MMM). The following is the trade information, including IB commissions:
01-Jul-09 - Initial Stock Position - BTO 100 MMM @ 60.84
01-Jul-09 - Initial Call Option - STO 1 Aug09 60.00 Call @ 2.90
11-Sep-09 - Dividend Received - DIV 100 Dividend @ 0.51
3M Company is a fundamentally solid wide moat company, with 10 consecutive years of positive cash flow, and 50 consecutive years of dividend increases. They should declared a quarterly dividend of $0.51, with ex-dividend date approximately on 8/10, payable approximately on 9/11.
I analyzed ...
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CC goes bankrupt
- any thoughts on CC's bankruptcy filing today and what it means for other companies in the industry?
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Help Finding The Best Shorts
- Although the best and potentially most profitable way of investing in stocks (excluding derivatives) is to go long, as your potential gains are unlimit...
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The Big Box Battle: Dogs or Discounts?
- There has been been some great battles in recent years between big box stores. Winners like Walmart, Best Buy and losers like Kmart and Ultimate Elect...
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