Only one of my 10 options gained value today and both of my stocks gained and yet I finished the day up $93. That’s the beauty of diversification. I knew I should have bought my AAPL covered call back this morning when the stock was only up a dollar and change. I saw that a…
Month: June 2007
Covered Calls – Free Excel Spreadsheet for ROI
I just added a new free spreadsheet to my Excel Spreadsheets section. This one shows Return on Investment (ROI) for covered calls. I’m pretty sure I have it right to cover ITM or OTM calls. Since I use Ameritrade, those are the commissions I used in my formulas. Please let me know if you see any…
Charting the Dow ($INDU)
Check out the attached weekly chart of the Dow Industrial ($INDU) for the past year. I look at it every week with the idea that the Dow is still an indictator of the overall market’s direction. We’ll see how my analysis goes with this and I’ll start posting regular charts of the Dow if I…
End of the Month Summary
These are my returns according to Quicken: Last 12 Months 29.19% Annualized YTD: 43.50% Current Year Not Annualized: 14.46% Account Value: $53,588.30 Cash: $37,101.20 (deposited $7,000 on 5/1) I’m still only 150% invested (my goal is 200%), but have been busier than usual at work and haven’t had time to dig deeper to find stocks that fit my trading criteria. …