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- From: tjordan@sgi.com (Ted Jordan)
- Newsgroups: misc.invest
- Subject: Re: Covered Calls: Less Risk - High Returns.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.180251.28864@odin.corp.sgi.com>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 18:02:51 GMT
- References: <1993Jan18.230334.26026@novell.com> <1993Jan20.192644.13834@mobil.com>
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- In article <1993Jan20.192644.13834@mobil.com> etpeters@dal.mobil.com (E. T. Peterson(Eric)) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan18.230334.26026@novell.com>, anand@novell.com writes:
- >|>
- >|> Hi,
- >|>
- >|> I friend told me about the covered calls. This looks like very low
- >|> risk but good return to me.
- >|>
- >|> Check it out:
- >|>
- >|> I bought 100 shares of ABC shares $42.00 in January.
- >|>
- >|> The FEB (17) call premium for a strike price of $45.00 is $2.50
- >|> I placed the covered call (to use my 100 ABC shares as collateral).
- >|>
- >|> NO Risk:
- >|> ========
- >|>
- >|> On Feb 17th, if the closing price of ABC is
- >|>
- >|> $45.00 <= I will get $2.50 * 100 dollars + 100 ABC shares.
- >|>
- >|> $45.00 > I will get $2.50 * 100 + $45 * 100 dollars.
- >|>
- >|> Either way I am making money.
- >|>
- >|> Note:
- >|> =====
- >|> 1) If the closing price is: < $39.50 , i will be losing money.
- >|> 2) For the simplicity, i have omitted the $40 commission.
- >|>
- >|> Am I missing something here?.
- >
- >No, you are not missing anything on the details of your example.
- >
- >However, mutual funds that use this technique usually do not perform as well
- >as "regular" mutual funds. Why?
- >
- Is there the same kind of thing for PUTS? (Is there such a thing; rather
- is it called a "covered put", and do you have an example of this scenario?
-
- tj
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