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Sold Mar08 Puts for BP plc (ADR) – BP

February 19th, 2008 at 7:36 pm » Comments (0)

I sold 2 BP Mar08 65 Puts for 300.05 in an IRA account.  This is a 26.91% annualized return. BP pays a good dividend at 4.94%.  I would actually not mind it being put to me.  I own another 100 shares in this account that I acquired when I was an employee of ARCO which [...]



Sold Mar08 Puts for GENERAL MOTORS – GM

February 19th, 2008 at 7:26 pm » Comments (0)

I sold 6 GM Mar08 22.50 Puts for $209.50 in an IRA account.  That is an 18.59% annualized return.  A little less than my goal of 20% but this is GM.  I sold Feb08 25 puts for GM last month that expired worthless.  The price is down a little since then and there has been [...]



Sold Mar08 puts for Yahoo! Inc – YHOO

February 19th, 2008 at 6:47 pm » Comments (0)

I sold 3 YHOO Mar08 27.50 Puts for 172.50 in my taxable account.  This is a 24.37% annualized return on the strike price. I think that the MSFT bid for YHOO will keep the YHOO price above the 27.50 strike price of this put.  If not I will probably try to roll this out before [...]