Seeking Alpha Covered Call Strategy Article (May 31)

Seeking Alpha has published the following Covered Call strategy article (May 31):

Michael Thomas - Using Covered Calls To Increase Your Yield: Gravy For a Dividend Growth Portfolio - MCD, POT

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New trade in OCZ Technology

Sell The Call has made another covered call trade in OCZ Technology. The July $6.00 call was sold for $0.35 before commissions and fees. The stock is currently priced at $5.05. The trade will end on July 20 or when the shares are called away early.

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Alcoa Pays Quarterly Dividend

Alcoa has payed its quarterly dividend. This action lowers the cost basis and the Code Red price for the trade by $0.03 per share now.

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Seeking Alpha May 22 Articles on Covered Call Strategy

Seeking Alpha has posted on May 22 the following Covered Call Strategy articles:

Allen Ellman - Covered Call Writing And The Ellman Calculator - Single Tab - Selecting The Best Strike Price



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Seeking Alpha May 21 Covered Call Strategy Articles

Seeking Alpha published on May 21 the following covered call strategy articles:

Jeff Pierce - I'll Have Another Covered Call


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Current OCZ trade ends Code Orange

The current OCZ trade ended Code Orange. The stock closed at $4.79. Sell the Call will go back into the options market and sell another call on OCZ.

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One Week Remaining of OCZ trade....Code Orange

There is one week remaining on the current OCZ trade. The trade is currently Code Orange. The stock closed the week at $5.26. That is a decline of $0.13 for the week. The May $6.00 call ask price closed at $0.10. That is a decline of $0.10 for the week.

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Protection for Covered Call

One of the risks of trading covered calls is that the stock can go down. A way to provide protection for this event is to go into the options market and purchase at the money puts. That way, if the stock falls a considerable amount, the gain in the put should at least offset the loss in the stock. This trade has three legs; purchasing shares (a negative), sell calls against the stock (a positive), and buy puts to protect from the stock declining (a negative).

There is a very good blog on this type of trading named Power Options. Click on the link below to check it out.

Seeking Alpha - Power Options

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Seeking Alpha Covered Call Strategy Articles for May 8 2012

Seeking Alpha has published the following May 8 2012 articles on the covered call strategy:

Mike Scanlon - Sell (Call Options) In May And Go Away: Apple (AAPL), Salesforce.com (CRM), LinkedIn (LNKD), Cirrus Logic (CRUS), VirnetX Holdings (VHC), and Google (GOOG)

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Seeking Alpha Covered Call Strategy Articles May 7, 2012

Seeking Alpha has published the following covered call strategy articles:

Allan Ellman - Covered Call Writing and The VIX

George Acs - When Is Speculation Not Speculative? Taking Profit From Silver ETF's: Dow Chemical (DOW), Zoltek (ZOLT), Proshares Ultrashort Silver ETF (ZSL), Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (GMCR), Proshares UltraSilver ETF (AGQ)

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May Born To Sell Newsletter

Born To Sell has released its May Newsletter. The information is simply being passed on and is not a recommendation to buy or sell any of the securities mentioned.

	Seller's Paradise May 1, 2012
That's A Lot Of Nickels There are at least two ways go get a billion dollars: Start a nationwide photocopy business like Kinko's and charge 5 cents a copy. Be a high-frequency trader and execute millions of trades per year where your average gain is 5 cents per trade (not per share, per trade). The first is chronicled in the book Two Billion Dollars In Nickels, the second in our blog article on High-Frequency Trading. Turn Apple Into An Income Stream Recently we read an article on How To Turn Apple's Stock Into An Income Stream. The author, Rocco Pendola, makes several good points that we agree with: AAPL is a good stock for covered calls. Some people make a living just writing covered calls on AAPL. If you have an unrealized gain in AAPL (in a taxable account) and don't want the shares called away, you can buy back any in-the-money options you may have sold while they still have some time premium left. In addition to writing for SeekingAlpha, TheStreet.com, and others, Rocco publishes the Option Investing Newsletter, which contains specific trade analysis and recommendations. He has some quality ideas in that newsletter and it's worth checking out. AAPL Weekly Trade Speaking of AAPL, hopefully you caught our blog article on Apr 16 where we laid out 5 possible in-the-money covered calls as a 5 day trade using the AAPL weeklys. Turns out that all 5 trades finished in the black, with the biggest success yielding 58.4% annualized return. See the trade ideas in the Weekly Apple (AAPL) Trade blog article. Which Is Better: Naked Put or Covered Call? We are often asked about naked puts vs covered calls. Our advice to those who think one is better than the other is to check the profit & loss curves side by side (hint: they are the same if you use the same strike and expiration date). Now, there are a few differences between the two. The differences involve things like account permissions, commissions, dividends, margin, and interest. But if you are trading at a low-cost broker with reasonable account permissions and margin rules then the differences are so small as to not really worry about. They are basically the same trade. See the Naked Put vs. Covered Call analysis. ARNA And 3 Other Covered Calls For May 19 Expiration With less than 3 weeks to go until the May options expire, the top 4 covered calls Born To Sell members have written are (in order of popularity): Rank Symbol Strike 1. ARNA 2 2. MSFT 32 3. AAPL 590 4. GE 19 ARNA has an earnings release on May 10, and MSFT has an ex-dividend date on May 15. (Note: Born To Sell members have access to the full Top 10 Covered Call list, as well as having this list update real-time as members change positions. These are not recommendations, they are merely a reflection of our members' current positions.) INTC And Other Covered Call Watchlist Stocks Currently, the top 8 stocks Born To Sell members are using for their Watchlist are (in order of popularity): Rank Symbol 1. INTC 2. MSFT 3. AAPL 4. GE 5. JNJ 6. CSCO 7. T 8. XOM (Note: Born To Sell members have access to the full Top 20 Watchlist, as well as having this list update real-time as members change their watchlists. And, you can have the highest yielding covered calls from your personal watchlist emailed to you after the close each day. Never miss a fat premium from your watchlist again!) Want More Covered Call Goodness? Born To Sell is dedicated to only one thing: Making Money With Covered Calls. Our subscribers have access to state-of-the-art covered call screeners and covered call portfolio management tools. For less than the profit of a single trade you could be enjoying recurring monthly income using our tools. Three subscription types to choose from: Term Price Monthly $59.95 Quarterly $149.95 (17% discount) Annual $499.95 (31% discount) Plus, all subscriptions begin with a no-obligation 2-week free trial. What are you waiting for? Start collecting premium today! Happy Trading, The Born To Sell Team Follow us: Facebook | Twitter or watch demos of Covered Call Tools (YouTube)

2 weeks until OCZ trade ends...Code

There are 2 weeks remaining on the current OCZ trade. The trade is currently Code Orange. The stock closed the week at $5.39. That is a decline of $0.56 from last week. The April $6.00 call ask closed at $0.20. That is a  decline of $0.50 from last week.

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