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YHOO May08 Puts

April 25th, 2008 at 8:51 am » Comments (0)

YHOO, YHOO, YHOO, what are you doing to me?  You may remember that I sold 4 YHOO May08 27.50 Puts on 4/23.  It was down at the time but well above $28.  I believe that MSFT will eventually buy it but I had lost track of the deadline MSFT set for this Saturday.  There is [...]



PM Update for May08 Call

April 25th, 2008 at 8:39 am » Comments (0)

I said yesterday that “There seems to be some consensus that PM might be worth somewhere below $55″.  I may have spoken a little early.  One of my advisory subscriptions has a target of $57.50 on PM that I had missed (forgotten about?) earlier.  In an update on PM two days ago they suggested that PM [...]



Sold May08 Calls on TIE, IMB, PM

April 24th, 2008 at 9:29 am » Comments (0)

I sold a few calls this morning on some stocks I have been sitting on for a few days.  Mostly I was trying to decide what the stocks were going to do and what I wanted to do.
Sold 1 TIE May08 17.50 Call for a deposit of 66.25 in my taxable account.  TIE is at 16.72 [...]