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Option Sellers Beware.

Mark D Wolfinger on the folly of buying options.

Four trades this month, all in the US and all calls. One was called, Fedex delivered the cash on the Buffett / BNI inspired surge in transports. I’m glad to have the cash and FDX gone. FDX closed at $81.78, $0.28 above my sold total ($75+6.50).
AEO, MIDD and NUAN averaged a 4.6% cash gain for the six weeks and ended lower. If you’re both happy to hold and to sell a stock then calls are excellent dividend producing options. However, if you want to sell a company then sell it, …

Buying Telstra at current prices gives investors a relatively safe 10% yield while they wait for a respectable capital gain.

As a part owner of Amgen and nephew to a breast cancer sufferer I was happy to read Denosumab demonstrated superiority over Zometa. As an option seller it sent a shiver down my spine.

I know the synthetic theory of Puts and covered calls and I sell both naked puts and calls on stock I own. I have never entered a covered call as a Put is the better trade; less expensive and usually marginally more profitable. Believing writing covered calls is conservative made it as my fifth biggest mistakes in option trading. But I always wonder when I sell a call, “what the hell am I doing!” Why don’t I just sell the sell the stock and sell a put.

As a rule I don’t often talk about by trades. The main reason for that is I’ve found talking about a trade influences it. I’m not talking a butterfly flapping its wings over Japan here, I’m talking about real and very tangibles effects. As soon as I mention a trade to anyone then my ego comes in to play. I’d like to say it doesn’t, but I know it does.

If you could half your risk and maintain all the upside for a pittance would you be interested? Well read on as I’ve got a couple strategies to share with you.

https://www.cboe.org/publish/InfoCir/IC08-082.pdf
Monday, November 17, 2008 — 2011 LEAP options begin trading for March cycle shares. That’s the last cycle to start trading after the cycles were delayed this year. More info on LEAP cycles.
Thinking of selling covered call and put on 2011 Amgen giving profit in $35 plus range, with profit capped at $85, but $25 of that in the hand now. There is no free lunch. Use of these derivatives increases gearing in portfolio. Money received is for assumption of risk and limiting upside.
Synthetic long on GE, a March cycle, …