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[RT] Selling Uncovered Puts



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Great Post Gary,

There is a free website that is good for finding what you discuss. It 
is free [www.optionsnewsletter.com]

You hit the nail on the head about selling a naked put is much like 
selling a covered call...to an extent.

John



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Originally From: "Gary Funck" <gary@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [RT] Selling Uncovered Puts
Date: 10/21/2002 04:26pm


Several years back, I ran a small study and found that it was often 
better
to sell covered calls (or the equivalent naked puts) on stocks that 
were
close (within a few percent) to
their intermediate moving average. The rationale is that stocks which 
are at
a large distance from their moving average often exhibit (and have
exhibited) high volatility, and often as not this volatility is to the
downside.

Add to this, only sell calls on dividend paying
stocks (where the dividend is, say, at 1east 1%), and this will help 
steer
you
away from the more speculative stocks.

Using the moving average and dividend rule of thumb, and throwing in 
an
additional criteria that the stock has to have positive earnings ona
trailing twelve month basis, then CAT, AA, PG, UTX, and MMM would be 
the
best buy/write candidates (see attached .csv file) from the DJIA 
stocks.
Keep in mind that the call premium will have the dividend subtracted 
out if
the stock goes ex-div. while you're holding the covered call position.

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