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Monster Worldwide Inc (MWW) – Bought Shares – Sold Jan13 Calls

February 28th, 2012 at 11:51 am » Comments (0)

Today, 2/28/12 I bought 200 additional shares of MWW (at a net cost of $6.73 per shares) to increase my holdings to 500 shares and to average down my basis.  I then sold 5 MWW Jan13 $10 Covered Calls for a net deposit of $138.19 in an IRA account.  My basis for these MWW shares [...]



Option Results for February 2012

February 27th, 2012 at 1:34 pm » Comments (0)

I have normally written about my end of month option results the Monday after option expiration.  However, as I find I am selling the weekly options more often I have delayed this post until after the last Friday of the month is past. This month I had two sets of Call assignments, both at full [...]



Hewlett-Packard Company (HPQ) – Sold May12 – Aug12 Calls

February 27th, 2012 at 1:11 pm » Comments (0)

The remaining 8 HPQ $29 Puts I had sold were assigned to me over the weekend.  I considered selling Covered Calls at the $29 strike for March, April, May and August.  The greatest percentage returns were for Aug12.  In the end, I decided to sell 4 HPQ $19 Covered Calls, one in each of 4 [...]