On 8/25/08, I sold 4 TIE Sep08 15 Covered Calls for a net deposit of $29.00 in my taxable account.  My basis for these TIE shares is now 29.49. 200 of these TIE shares were put to me on 8/25/08 as a result of assignment of 2 TIE Jan09 30 Puts that I had sold (and rolled [...]

On 8/22/08, I sold 2 DSX Oct08 35 Covered Calls for a net deposit of $60.50 in an IRA account.  My basis for these DSX shares is now 33.16. DSX pays a good dividend, .91 in the most recent quarter and up each quarter from .58 four quarters ago.  I would have preferred to have sold [...]

On 8/22/08, I sold 2 CCJ Sep08 30 Covered Calls for a net deposit of $260.50 in an IRA account.  My basis for these CCJ shares is now 35.65. I am a little under water for these CCJ shares so do not want to have them called away.  CCJ does pay a small dividend of [...]