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- From: hamachi@adobe.com (Gordon Hamachi)
- Subject: Re: Covered Calls: Less Risk - High Returns.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.185124.20332@adobe.com>
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 18:51:24 GMT
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- I once sold a covered call, and the call was exercised even though the stock
- price was a couple of points lower than the call price. Why in the world would
- anyone pay more than the current market price for a stock? I thought this was
- quite strange, and concluded that my broker must have bought my call.
-
- Merrill Lynch got a commission when selling me the call. It got another
- commission when my stock was called away (in effect, sold by me). It got yet
- another commission when I took the proceeds and invested it in another stock.
- Of course, Merrill Lynch recommended that I sell the call in the first place.
- This was nothing more than a sneaky way of churning my account.
-
- I don't have an account with Merrill Lynch any more.
-