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- From: temiraso@vela.acs.oakland.edu (thomas e mirasol)
- Subject: Re: Covered Calls: Less Risk - High Returns.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.033209.12987@vela.acs.oakland.edu>
- Organization: Oakland University, Rochester MI.
- References: <1993Jan20.192644.13834@mobil.com> <1993Jan21.180251.28864@odin.corp.sgi.com> <1993Jan21.213932.28063@mobil.com>
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- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 03:32:09 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan21.213932.28063@mobil.com> etpeters@dal.mobil.com (E. T. Peterson(Eric)) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan21.180251.28864@odin.corp.sgi.com>, tjordan@sgi.com (Ted Jordan) writes:
- >
- >|> >|> A friend told me about the covered calls. This looks like very low
- >|> >|> risk but good return to me.
- >
- >|> Is there the same kind of thing for PUTS? (Is there such a thing; rather
- >|> is it called a "covered put", and do you have an example of this scenario?
- >
- >Yes.
- >
- >When you sell a stock short, you could also sell a put on that stock.
- >This is analogous to covered call writing on a long position.
- >
- >For example, you short a stock at $40 and sell a 35 put at $2.
- >
- >At the expiration date of the put, if the stock is below $35, you will
- >have to buy it for $35, thus covering your short position.
- >
- >If the stock is above $35, the put expires worthless.
- >
- >In either case you keep the $2 put premium.
- >
- >The drawback is if the stock goes way down, say to $20, you still have to
- >buy it at $35.
-
- Why wait till expiration? If the stock is on a downward path, why not
- buy a put earlier to limit your losses? For example, if the stock price
- is already at $30 and you feel it is going to drop further, why not buy
- a $30 put to stop the bleeding.
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