Barron's: Selling Covered Calls Portfolio - Stockpickr! Your Source for Stock Ideas

Barron's: Selling Covered Calls

5529 views

TheStreet.com Rating: C-

Rate Now:

average rating: 3.50 / 2 ratings

printer friendly

send to a friend

Created by Barrons

DESCRIPTION:

Date updated:08-04-2007

From Barron's 8-6-07:

The Street's trading recommendations have less to do with traditional volatility trading, and more to do with fundamental analysis of stocks. Recommended strategies include selling puts on mega-caps (stocks with market values of at least $40 billion), selling calls and buying stock.

Michael Schwartz, Oppenheimer's chief options strategist, recommends selling slightly out-of-the-money calls against Dow industrial components to buy stocks at a potential discount. "Market swings are creating opportunities to sell richly priced options against stocks," Schwartz says. "Some premiums are as much as 100% more than you would normally receive for selling calls."

Returns range from 9.6% to 17%, with holding periods of up to about seven months. Some of the highest returns in his covered-call list include these stocks.

AA
Alcoa
$10.52
0.00%
$9.88

No Analysis added

People owning AA also tend to own: AIG IBM INTC JNJ JPM KO MSFT

TheStreet.com Rating: C- What is this?

GM
Gm
$0.00
N/A
$N/A

No Analysis added

People owning GM also tend to own: AA AME ATI CAG CEG CMI COL

TheStreet.com Rating: E+ What is this?

CAT
Caterpillar Inc.
$37.45
0.00%
$37.51

No Analysis added

People owning CAT also tend to own: AA ALL APC BA BAC C CBH

TheStreet.com Rating: C What is this?

AXP
American Express
$24.71
0.00%
$24.80

No Analysis added

People owning AXP also tend to own: AIG ALL BAC BRK-B C COF FNM

TheStreet.com Rating: C What is this?

JPM
Jpmorgan Chase &
$34.50
0.00%
$35.07

No Analysis added

People owning JPM also tend to own: AA AIG IBM INTC JNJ KO MSFT

TheStreet.com Rating: C What is this?

C
Citigroup Inc
$3.51
0.00%
$3.61

No Analysis added

People owning C also tend to own: AIG BA CPWR DIS FWLT GS HAL

TheStreet.com Rating: D What is this?

Barron's: Selling Covered Calls's Blog
No Blogs Found

Comments not available

Top Do-It-Yourself Portfolios
» agtest1
» Joy
» tsamanuli Portfolio 1
» brueckenc Portfolio 1
» HMH1
show all

Four Must-See Charts: Stem Cell ...

By Stockpickr Staff Posted on July 2, 2009 Developments in the stem cell world are starting to get very interesting. On Tuesday, General Electric (GE) signed an exc...

07.02.09 | 15:19 PM

Stockpickr's Picks of the Day: J...

By Rebecca Corvino Posted on July 2, 2009 Every day, Stockpickr members are creating and sharing stock ideas with each other through various platforms. If you're not al...

07.02.09 | 13:43 PM

Cramer's Take on Headline Stocks...

By Rebecca Corvino Posted at 12:30 p.m. EDT on July 2, 2009 Making Thursday's headlines and sending stocks lower were reports that June saw the loss of 467,000 more job...

07.02.09 | 12:31 PM

Dividend Stocks for the Week

By Stockpickr Staff Posted on July 2, 2009 Some investors assume that at this time of year, it's the summer doldrums for the stock market. After all, as the saying goe...

07.02.09 | 11:02 AM

General market Technical Analysi...

11.14.07 | 22:55 PM From author ZA

The Presidential/Political Thread

01.02.08 | 08:05 AM From author Dave Cox

Banjo's Garden Pic Thread

05.10.09 | 12:33 PM From author banjoman

Speculation and Rumors

05.22.09 | 01:01 AM From author DaveOfDuke

more forums