Investment Idea Sharing Oct. 26, 2014

Investment Idea Sharing – Oct. 26, 2014 

See below for my personal stock market Buys or Sells for this week:

Buy Stock: none                                        Sell Stock: none

Buy (To Close) Covered Call: none               Sell (to Open) Covered CALL: AAL, VVI

Buy (to Close) Cash Secured PUT: none       Sell (to Open) Cash Secured PUT: none

See the details on these transactions below the Weekly Summary table.

All of the world market indices were up nicely except for Russia, Shang Hai and Brazil.  Even the 10 and 30 year U.S. Treasury yields were up.  I think the market drop of the past 3 weeks made too many bargains for people to pass up.  Read more here: http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/markets/2014/10/24/stocks-friday/17823391/

I continue to look for stocks that have good fundamental financial values, but stock prices near 52 week and, where possible, 5 year lows.

Weekly Summary Table of Worldwide Market Index Closing values:

 http://www.ultimatestockfinder.com/weekly_index_summary.GIF

Here are my Stock BUYs for This Week:

Stock Symbol:

Buy Date:  

Buy Price:  

Target Sell Price:

Here are my Stock SELLs for This Week:

Stock Symbol:

Sell Date: 

Sell Price: 

Buy Price:  

Buy Date:  

Here are my Mutual Fund BUYs for This Week:

Fund Symbol:

Buy Date: 

Buy Price: 

Target Sell Price:

Here are my Option (CALL or PUT) Sells/Buys for This Week:

Option: Sell to Open Covered CALL 

Stock Symbol:  AAL

Sell to Open Date: 10/20/2014

Expiration Date:  1/15/2016

Strike Price: $45

Option Price:  $3.20

I originally bought AAL in August 2013 when American Airlines was in bankruptcy.  I paid $2.88/share.  After AAL merged with US airways and came out of bankruptcy it went clear up to $44.88 on June 26, 2014.  I had sold a Jan 2015 Covered Call for $4.28 at a strike of $41 on June 2, 2014, but I was never called out because AAL went back down very fast after hitting that $44.88.  On Sept. 25, 2014, when AAL got down below $35, I bought my Covered Call back (Buy to Close) for $1.40/share.  AAL went on down to $28.58 on Oct. 13, 2014, but now has turned back up.  So, today, with AAL at $34.44, I was able to sell this new $45 Covered Call.

Option: Sell to Open Covered CALL 

Stock Symbol:  VVI

Sell to Open Date: 10/24/2014

Expiration Date:  3/20/2015

Strike Price: $22.50

Option Price:  $1.10

I originally bought VVI in July 2014 at $22 after it had dropped from $28 in January.  After that it went down to $20.26 in early October.  Now it is back to almost $22, so I am able to sell my first covered CALL on it.

Option: Buy to Close Covered CALL 

Stock Symbol:

Original Sell to Open Date:

Original Expiration Date: 

Buy to Close Date:

Strike Price:

Option Price:

Option: Sell to Open Cash Secured PUT 

Stock Symbol: 

Sell to Open Date:

Expiration Date: 

Strike Price:

Option Price:

Visit www.ultimatestockfinder.com to download our Stock Evaluator and Mutual Fund Evaluator spreadsheets, read training articles and check out all our web links for investing information.

StockEvaluator ‘Short List’

Download ‘Short List’ here: http://www.ultimatestockfinder.com/stockevaluator_short_list.xls

‘Short List’ screens using 12 fundamental value limits that I want to see in a stock before considering it as a possible buy. 

View our training video that shows how to enter your preferred values for each of these ‘Short List’ screening limits:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAwU48oEkJU

View the Stock Evaluator ‘Short List’ screening criteria and target limit values here: http://www.ultimatestockfinder.com/short_list_12_criteria.JPG

Mutual Fund Evaluator ‘Short List’

Download ‘Short List’ here: http://www.ultimatestockfinder.com/mutualfundevaluator_short_list.xls

View the Mutual Fund Evaluator ‘Short List’ screening criteria and target limit values here:

http://www.ultimatestockfinder.com/mutualfund_short_list_criteria.JPG

Please remember to send me any other investing ideas, information or questions that you want to share with the group.

Thanks,

John D.

Disclosure: The author has no positions in any of the stocks or mutual funds mentioned in this article unless clearly stated above. We certify that except as cited herein, this is our work product. We received no compensation or other inducement from any party to produce this article.  Please see our full legal disclaimer at:  http://www.ultimatestockfinder.com/stockevaluator_disclaimer.html

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Investment Idea Sharing Oct. 18, 2014

Investment Idea Sharing – Oct. 19, 2014 

See below for my personal stock market Buys or Sells for this week:

Buy Stock: none                                         Sell Stock: none

Buy To Close Covered Call: none                  Sell Covered CALL: none

Buy to Close Cash Secured PUT: none           Sell Cash Secured PUT: none

See the details on these transactions below the Weekly Summary table.

Effective immediately, I am discontinuing the monthly Investment Idea Sharing meeting at my house due to the fact that over the past year, most months nobody showed up.  Anytime, that any of you want to talk about investing, just send me an email, and we will arrange a time to meet, because I am always ready and willing to talk about investing.

Over the past month, the S&P 500 has dropped 6.1%.  

Sept. 19 it was the all time high closing value of 2,010.40

Oct. 18 it closed at 1,887 down 6.1% from the Sept. 19 high closing value.

But this week’s low is still 7% above its low for 2014 of 1739.66 on Feb. 3, 2014.

Here is the 1 year chart for the S&P 500 (It is symbol ^GSPC at Yahoo Finance): https://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=%5EGSPC+Interactive#symbol=%5Egspc;range=1y;compare=;indicator=rsi+volume;charttype=area;crosshair=on;ohlcvalues=0;logscale=off;source=;

All of the world market indices were down last week by about 3%, but 10 and 30 year U.S. Treasury yields were down by 10% and 5%, which means that the price of treasury bonds went UP.  This is due to The Fed hinting at leaving the interest rates low for another year.  Read more here: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/why-30-treasury-yields-fell-130023057.html

I continue to look for stocks that have good fundamental financial values, but stock prices near 52 week and, where possible, 5 year lows.

Weekly Summary Table of Worldwide Market Index Closing values:

 http://www.ultimatestockfinder.com/weekly_index_summary.GIF

Here are my Stock BUYs for This Week:

Stock Symbol:

Buy Date:  

Buy Price:  

Target Sell Price:

Here are my Stock SELLs for This Week:

Stock Symbol:

Sell Date: 

Sell Price: 

Buy Price:  

Buy Date:  

Here are my Mutual Fund BUYs for This Week:

Fund Symbol:

Buy Date: 

Buy Price: 

Target Sell Price:

Here are my Option (CALL or PUT) Sells/Buys for This Week:

Option: Buy to Close Covered CALL 

Stock Symbol:

Original Sell to Open Date:

Original Expiration Date: 

Buy to Close Date:

Strike Price:

Option Price:

Option: Sell to Open Covered CALL 

Stock Symbol:

Sell to Open Date:

Expiration Date: 

Strike Price:

Option Price:  

Option: Sell to Open Cash Secured PUT 

Stock Symbol:

Sell to Open Date:

Expiration Date: 

Strike Price:

Option Price:

Visit www.ultimatestockfinder.com to download our Stock Evaluator and Mutual Fund Evaluator spreadsheets, read training articles and check out all our web links for investing information.

StockEvaluator ‘Short List’

Download ‘Short List’ here: http://www.ultimatestockfinder.com/stockevaluator_short_list.xls

‘Short List’ screens using 12 fundamental value limits that I want to see in a stock before considering it as a possible buy. 

View our training video that shows how to enter your preferred values for each of these ‘Short List’ screening limits:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAwU48oEkJU

View the Stock Evaluator ‘Short List’ screening criteria and target limit values here: http://www.ultimatestockfinder.com/short_list_12_criteria.JPG

Mutual Fund Evaluator ‘Short List’

Download ‘Short List’ here: http://www.ultimatestockfinder.com/mutualfundevaluator_short_list.xls

View the Mutual Fund Evaluator ‘Short List’ screening criteria and target limit values here:

http://www.ultimatestockfinder.com/mutualfund_short_list_criteria.JPG

Please remember to send me any other investing ideas, information or questions that you want to share with the group.

Thanks,

John D.

Disclosure: The author has no positions in any of the stocks or mutual funds mentioned in this article unless clearly stated above. We certify that except as cited herein, this is our work product. We received no compensation or other inducement from any party to produce this article.  Please see our full legal disclaimer at:  http://www.ultimatestockfinder.com/stockevaluator_disclaimer.html

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Mid Week Update due to Big Market Drop - 15 Oct. 2014

Investment Idea Sharing – Oct. 15, 2014 Mid Week Update: 

See below for my personal stock market Buys or Sells for this week:

Buy Stock: none                                         Sell Stock: none

Buy To Close Covered Call: none                  Sell Covered CALL: none

Buy to Close Cash Secured PUT: none           Sell Cash Secured PUT: none

See more details on these transactions below the Weekly Summary table below.

For the past 10 days, my wife and I were on vacation in New York state and visited Niagara Falls, Albany, Manhattan and Long lsland.  We had a great time, but I started getting worried when the market did the big drop this week.  Last night when we got back home, I ran the program to update the values in Mutual Fund Evaluator.  This morning, I ran a screen to find mutual funds with performance equal to or better than my favorite fund FCNTX (Fidelity Contrafund).  We have owned FCNTX since 1995 and it has been great. 

Over the past 25 years, FCNTX returned an average of 14.2% per year versus the S&P 500 which returned an average of 10.4%.  10 year average annual returns: FCNTX is 10.1% and S&P 500 is 7.5%.  FCNTX is 4% better than the S&P 500 at 25 years, and 2.5% better at 10 years.  Using my Mutual Fund Evaluator spreadsheet screening capabilities, I have found 90 funds that returned as good or better than FCNTX over at least the past 10 years.  But even with this week’s big drop, almost half of these 90 funds are not yet down to be within 5% of their 52 week lows.  Use Column C “Fund Symbol” and Column D “Fund Family” to confirm with your brokerage house if any funds you are interested in can be purchased at no transaction fee from your brokerage.

Link Here for this spreadsheet: http://www.ultimatestockfinder.com/mutualfundevaluator_like_fcntx.xls

My wife and I decided a year ago that the next time we got a 10% market drop, we would move 3% of our idle cash into a mutual fund that has better performance than FCNTX to gain more diversification.

Over the past month, the S&P 500 has dropped 7.3%.  

Sept. 19 it was the all time high closing value of 2,010.40

Oct. 16 (today) it closed at 1,862.76 down 7.3% from the Sept. 19 closing value.

But today’s low is still not its low for 2014.  That low was 1739.66 on Feb. 3, 2014.

Here is the 1 year chart for the S&P 500 (It is symbol ^GSPC at Yahoo Finance): https://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=%5EGSPC+Interactive#symbol=%5Egspc;range=1y;compare=;indicator=rsi+volume;charttype=area;crosshair=on;ohlcvalues=0;logscale=off;source=;

Here is the S&P 500 chart from March 2007 to Dec. 2012:

https://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=%5EGSPC+Interactive#symbol=%5Egspc;range=20070309,20121221;compare=;indicator=rsi+volume;charttype=area;crosshair=on;ohlcvalues=0;logscale=off;source=;

I made a table to look at the big drops in the S&P 500 since 2008 so I could see how long each of these drops lasted from the starting high to the finishing low before the market finally turned back up.  There were 7 drops greater than 5% and the duration ranged from 294 days to 12 days.  This current drop has lasted 27 days and has not turned back up yet.  But it has not hit my 10% down target, so I am going to wait and be ready to buy if it goes on down to my 10%.

Link here:  http://www.ultimatestockfinder.com/sp500_big_drops.JPG

I continue to look for stocks that have good fundamental financial values, but stock prices near 52 week lows.

Weekly Summary Table of Worldwide Market Index Closing values:

 http://www.ultimatestockfinder.com/weekly_index_summary.GIF

Here are my Stock BUYs for This Week:

Stock Symbol:

Buy Date:  

Buy Price:  

Target Sell Price:

Here are my Stock SELLs for This Week:

Stock Symbol:

Sell Date: 

Sell Price: 

Buy Price:  

Buy Date:  

Here are my Mutual Fund BUYs for This Week:

Fund Symbol:

Buy Date: 

Buy Price: 

Target Sell Price:

Here are my Option (CALL or PUT) Sells/Buys for This Week:

Option: Buy to Close Covered CALL 

Stock Symbol:

Original Sell to Open Date:

Original Expiration Date: 

Buy to Close Date:

Strike Price:

Option Price:

Option: Sell to Open Covered CALL 

Stock Symbol:

Sell to Open Date:

Expiration Date: 

Strike Price:

Option Price:  

Option: Sell to Open Cash Secured PUT 

Stock Symbol:

Sell to Open Date:

Expiration Date: 

Strike Price:

Option Price:

Visit www.ultimatestockfinder.com to download our Stock Evaluator and Mutual Fund Evaluator spreadsheets, read training articles and check out all our web links for investing information.

NOTE: Spreadsheets will NOT be updated from Sept. 1 until Sept. 20 because I am on vacation.

StockEvaluator ‘Short List’

Download ‘Short List’ here: http://www.ultimatestockfinder.com/stockevaluator_short_list.xls

‘Short List’ screens using 12 fundamental value limits that I want to see in a stock before considering it as a possible buy. 

View our training video that shows how to enter your preferred values for each of these ‘Short List’ screening limits:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAwU48oEkJU

View the Stock Evaluator ‘Short List’ screening criteria and target limit values here: http://www.ultimatestockfinder.com/short_list_12_criteria.JPG

Mutual Fund Evaluator ‘Short List’

Download ‘Short List’ here: http://www.ultimatestockfinder.com/mutualfundevaluator_short_list.xls

View the Mutual Fund Evaluator ‘Short List’ screening criteria and target limit values here:

http://www.ultimatestockfinder.com/mutualfund_short_list_criteria.JPG

Please remember to send me any other investing ideas, information or questions that you want to share with the group.

Thanks,

John D.

Disclosure: The author has no positions in any of the stocks or mutual funds mentioned in this article unless clearly stated above. We certify that except as cited herein, this is our work product. We received no compensation or other inducement from any party to produce this article.  Please see our full legal disclaimer at:  http://www.ultimatestockfinder.com/stockevaluator_disclaimer.html

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Investment Idea Sharing 4 Oct. 2014 - PUTs on EBAY & RIG

Investment Idea Sharing – Oct. 4, 2014: 

See below for my personal stock market Buys or Sells for this week:

Buy Stock: none

Sell Stock: none

Buy To Close Covered Call: STM

Sell Covered CALL: AEE, NOK

Buy to Close Cash Secured PUT: none

Sell Cash Secured PUT: EBAY, RIG

See more details on these transactions below the Weekly Summary table below.

This week I closed (Buy to Close) a CALL option on STM for $.10.  It did not expire until January 17, 2015, and was very far “Out of the Money” due to great stock price movement for STM after I had opened the position.  I sold Covered Calls on AEE and NOK as part of my strategy to generate steady revenue from my core holdings whenever they are near 52 week highs.  I sold a Cash Secured PUT on EBAY because it had high volatility after announcing it would spin off PayPal, and this caused their PUT option prices to go very high.  As RIG continues to go down along I am selling Cash Secured PUTs because I think the deepwater drillers are being overly punished by the stock market and I believe they will come back.  If RIG is put to me, they pay a 7% dividend and have good fundamental financial values.

Last week, most of the world market indices took a big 2% drop on Wednesday and Thursday, but recovered most of this drop on Friday to make the week almost no change from last week.  Pretty exciting to watch that drop happen!  Here is the story about the good unemployment and new job hires report that brought the market back on Friday:  https://finance.yahoo.com/news/unemployment-rate-falls-to-5-9---employers-hire-248-000-workers-140327159.html

I continue to look for stocks that have good fundamental financial values, but stock prices near 52 week lows.

Weekly Summary Table of Worldwide Market Index Closing values:

 http://www.ultimatestockfinder.com/weekly_index_summary.GIF

Here are my Stock BUYs for This Week:

Stock Symbol:

Buy Date:  

Buy Price:  

Target Sell Price:

Here are my Stock SELLs for This Week:

Stock Symbol:

Sell Date: 

Sell Price: 

Buy Price:  

Buy Date:  

Here are my Mutual Fund BUYs for This Week:

Fund Symbol:

Buy Date: 

Buy Price: 

Target Sell Price:

Here are my Option (CALL or PUT) Sells/Buys for This Week:

Option: Buy to Close Covered CALL 

Stock Symbol: STM

Original Sell to Open Date: 22 July 2014

Original Expiration Date:  Jan 17, 2015

Buy to Close Date: 1 Oct 2014

Strike Price: $10

Option Price:  $.10

I had bought these shares back in May 2013 and have sold Covered Calls on them several times since then.  STM pays a 4.5% dividend, but this year their profit dropped to a $-.18 / share, so their dividend is at risk.  They do have a chip in the new iPhone 6, so I am hoping that will bring them back to profitability.  But for now, their stock is so low that I was able to buy out of this CALL for only $.10 which gets me positioned for when STM comes back so I can sell another Covered CALL.

Here is the 5 year chart for STM:

https://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=STM+Interactive#symbol=stm;range=5y;compare=;indicator=rsi+volume;charttype=area;crosshair=on;ohlcvalues=0;logscale=off;source=;

Option: Sell to Open Covered CALL 

Stock Symbol: NOK

Sell to Open Date: 30 Sep 2014

Expiration Date:  15 Jan 2016

Strike Price: $10

Option Price:  $.70

I had bought these shares back in 23 Feb 2011 at $8.50.  After that, NOK had all kinds of problems and the stock went to $2 in 2012.  I believed in NOK and now they are at $8.28, so I can sell this $10 Covered CALL. 

Option: Sell to Open Covered CALL 

Stock Symbol: AEE

Sell to Open Date: 30 Sep 2014

Expiration Date:  20 Mar 2015

Strike Price: $40.00

Option Price:  $.85

I bought these shares on 12 Jan 2010 at $24.  They pay a great 4.2% dividend, but have hit a ceiling at $40 / share for the past year.  My prior Covered CALL at $40 expired in September, so I was happy they came back quickly so I could sell this next Covered CALL.

Option: Sell to Open Cash Secured PUT 

Stock Symbol: RIG

Sell to Open Date: 29 Sep 2014

Expiration Date:  15 Jan 2016

Strike Price: $33.00

Option Price: $6

This is the second PUT I have sold on RIG in the pst 3 months.  I sold a PUT in August on RIG at Strike of $38 for $3, but RIG continued to go down.  All of their competitors (NE, PGN, ESV) are also going down as the price of oil drops.  RIG fundamentals look good to me, so I am continuing to follow them down with these PUTs. 

Here is the 5 year chart for RIG:

https://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=RIG+Interactive#symbol=rig;range=5y;compare=;indicator=rsi+volume;charttype=area;crosshair=on;ohlcvalues=0;logscale=off;source=;

Option: Sell to Open Cash Secured PUT 

Stock Symbol: EBAY

Sell to Open Date: 30 Sep 2014

Expiration Date:  15 Jan 2016

Strike Price: $55.00

Option Price: $5.85

EBAY is not very close to their 52 week low, and their fundamental values are not as good as I prefer, but I decided to sell this Cash Secured PUT on EBAY because it had high volatility after announcing it would spin off PayPal, and this caused their PUT option prices to go very high. 

Here is the 5 year chart for EBAY:

https://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=EBAY+Interactive#symbol=ebay;range=5y;compare=;indicator=rsi+volume;charttype=area;crosshair=on;ohlcvalues=0;logscale=off;source=;

Visit www.ultimatestockfinder.com to download our Stock Evaluator and Mutual Fund Evaluator spreadsheets, read training articles and check out all our web links for investing information.

NOTE: Spreadsheets will NOT be updated from Sept. 1 until Sept. 20 because I am on vacation.

StockEvaluator ‘Short List’

Download ‘Short List’ here: http://www.ultimatestockfinder.com/stockevaluator_short_list.xls

‘Short List’ screens using 12 fundamental value limits that I want to see in a stock before considering it as a possible buy. 

View our training video that shows how to enter your preferred values for each of these ‘Short List’ screening limits:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAwU48oEkJU

View the Stock Evaluator ‘Short List’ screening criteria and target limit values here: http://www.ultimatestockfinder.com/short_list_12_criteria.JPG

Mutual Fund Evaluator ‘Short List’

Download ‘Short List’ here: http://www.ultimatestockfinder.com/mutualfundevaluator_short_list.xls

View the Mutual Fund Evaluator ‘Short List’ screening criteria and target limit values here:

http://www.ultimatestockfinder.com/mutualfund_short_list_criteria.JPG

Please remember to send me any other investing ideas, information or questions that you want to share with the group.

There will be no newsletter next week (Oct 11) because I will be on vacation.

Thanks,

John D.

Disclosure: The author has no positions in any of the stocks or mutual funds mentioned in this article unless clearly stated above. We certify that except as cited herein, this is our work product. We received no compensation or other inducement from any party to produce this article.  Please see our full legal disclaimer at:  http://www.ultimatestockfinder.com/stockevaluator_disclaimer.html

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Investment Idea Sharing 27 Sep 2014 - Lots of PUT and CALL activity

Investment Idea Sharing – Sept. 27, 2014: 

See below for my personal stock market Buys or Sells for this week:

Buy Stock: NE

Sell Stock: none

Buy To Close Covered Call: AAL

Sell Covered CALL: NOK, C

Buy to Close Cash Secured PUT: AAPL, AAL, EXC, NLY

Sell Cash Secured PUT: EXC, AAPL

This week I made a lot of trades because I had several CALL and PUT options that did not expire until January 17, 2015, and were very far “Out of the Money” due to great stock price movements after I had opened these positions.  That means I could buy these options back “Buy to Close” for pennies on the dollar when I had originally sold them for between $1 and $7.  This allowed me to close these options and take my money off the table 4 months early so I could look for other money making trades instead of just leaving this money tied up in these options for another 4 months.

Excellent article on how Lenovo (0992.HK) has grown to a worldwide power in electronics over the past 9 years.  http://www.strategy-business.com/article/00274?pg=all

Last week, the world market indices were all down except China’s Shanghai SSE which was up 0.7%, but hit a new 52 week high on Friday.  I could not find a story on why the SSE did this, but I checked its 1 year chart and found that it took a big jump in July 2014 and has continued this up trend.  Here is the 1 year chart for SSE:  https://www.google.com/finance?q=SHA%3A000001&ei=-HwnVJi2FajeiALmvYHACA

I continue to look for stocks that have good fundamental financial values, but stock prices near 52 week lows.

Summary Table of Worldwide Market Index Closing values for this week:

 http://www.ultimatestockfinder.com/weekly_index_summary.GIF

Here are my Stock BUYs for This Week:

Stock Symbol: NE

Buy Date:  24 Sep 2014

Buy Price:  $23.48

Target Sell Price: $30

All of the deepwater oil drilling companies have been driven down the past few weeks along with the price of oil.  Several of them (NE, RIG, PGN, ESV) have good fundamentals, so I have been selling some PUTs and also buying shares of stock.  NE 1 year chart: https://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=NE+Interactive#symbol=ne;range=1y;compare=;indicator=rsi+volume;charttype=area;crosshair=on;ohlcvalues=0;logscale=off;source=;

Here are my Stock SELLs for This Week:

Stock Symbol:

Sell Date: 

Sell Price: 

Buy Price:  

Buy Date:  

Here are my Mutual Fund BUYs for This Week:

Fund Symbol:

Buy Date: 

Buy Price: 

Target Sell Price:

Here are my Option (CALL or PUT) Sells/Buys for This Week:

Option: Sell to Open Covered CALL 

Stock Symbol: NOK

Sell to Open Date: 24 Sep 2014

Expiration Date:  15 Jan 2016

Strike Price: $10

Option Price:  $.65

I had bought these shares back in 23 Feb 2011 at $8.50.  After that, NOK had all kinds of problems and the stock went to $2 in 2012.  I believed in NOK and now they are at $8.61, so it is time to take some profit by selling this Covered CALL. 

Option: Sell to Open Covered CALL 

Stock Symbol: C

Sell to Open Date: 24 Sep 2014

Expiration Date:  15 Jan 2016

Strike Price: $57.50

Option Price:  $3.90

I bought these shares on 12 Jan 2009 at $5.75.  In 2011, C did a reverse split of 1:10 so my shares would need to be $57.50 to be at break even.  But after this reverse stock split, C went to $25.  I waited to make my money back. C is now at $52.49 and their CALL options are looking good to me.  This CALL allows me to get out at my original buy in price plus another $3.90 per share.  If I do get called out, there will be No more C for me.

Option: Buy to Close Covered CALL 

Stock Symbol: AAL

Original Sell to Open Date: 14 Aug 2013

Original Expiration Date:  17 Jan 2015

Buy to Close Date: 24 Sep 2014

Strike Price: $41.00

Option Price: $1.40

I had initially sold this CALL at $4.28 in Aug 2013, but AAL went down so far, that the price of this CALL went to $1.40 last week.  Since there were still 4 months left before this CALL would expire, during which it would possibly make me no more money, I bought it back to re-deploy this money on another AAL CALL, I have a new CALL sell order in for Expiration date of Jan 2016, Strike price of $45 at $3.20 / share.  AAL is currently at $35.93 and I expect that my new CALL will sell when AAL gets to $36.50.

Option: Buy to Close Cash Secured PUT 

Stock Symbol: AAPL

Original Sell to Open Date: 30 Jan 3014

Original Expiration Date:  17 Jan 2015

Buy to Close Date: 24 Sep 2014

Strike Price: $71.43

Option Price: $.16

I had initially sold this PUT at $7.61 in Jan 2014, but AAPL went up so far, that the price of this PUT went to $.16 last week.  Since there were still 4 months left before this PUT would expire, during which it would make me no more money, I bought it back to re-deploy this money on another AAPL PUT, see below

Option: Sell to Open Cash Secured PUT 

Stock Symbol: AAPL

Sell to Open Date: 24 Sep 2014

Expiration Date:  15 Jan 2016

Strike Price: $95.71

Option Price: $10

Option: Buy to Close Cash Secured PUT 

Stock Symbol: EXC

Original Sell to Open Date: 8 Nov 2013

Original Expiration Date:  17 Jan 2015

Buy to Close Date: 25 Sep 2014

Strike Price: $25

Option Price: $.10

I had initially sold this PUT at $2.00 in Nov 2013, but EXC went up so far, that the price of this PUT went to $.10 last week.  Since there were still 4 months left before this PUT would expire, during which it would make me no more money, I bought it back to re-deploy this money on another EXC PUT, see below

Option: Sell to Open Cash Secured PUT 

Stock Symbol: EXC

Sell to Open Date: 25 Sep 2014

Expiration Date:  15 Jan 2016

Strike Price: $32.00

Option Price: $3

Option: Buy to Close Cash Secured PUT 

Stock Symbol: NLY

Original Sell to Open Date: 26 Nov 2013

Original Expiration Date:  17 Jan 2015

Buy to Close Date: 25 Sep 2014

Strike Price: $10

Option Price: $.19

I had initially sold this PUT at $1.81 in Nov 2013, but NLY went up so far, that the price of this PUT went to $.19 last week.  Since there were still 4 months left before this PUT would expire, during which it would make me no more money, I bought it back to re-deploy this money on another NLY PUT, I have a new PUT sell order in for Expiration date of Jan 2016, Strike price of $10 at $1.20 / share.  NLY is currently at $11.22 and I expect that my new PUT will sell if NLY gets to $12.00 which it was last at in Oct. 2013.

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‘Short List’ screens using 12 fundamental value limits that I want to see in a stock before considering it as a possible buy. 

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John D.

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