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By Andrew,
Jeff McLarty from the financial blog Blue Moat was nice enough to write a post on his site answering some of my options related questions that have come about regarding some of the recent posts on this site. Anyone interested in understanding the nitty gritty of options trading should check it out. He explains in […]

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By Justin
Here is the continuation of my quest to produce a systematic tool for identifying if you should buy or rent. Keep in mind that when you combine these insights with some diligent research, you should feel confident in making a decision.
The previous post discussed your Plans for Savings and % Down Payment as […]

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By Andrew,
On April 4th I wrote a post on implementing the deep-in-the-money calls strategy with Microsoft calls. To recap I bought 10 of the July 2008 $24.00 calls for $5.15 on March 26th. Sometime last week the July calls reached our target of $6.15 and the good-till-canceled limit order executed to lock in our $1000 […]

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By Andrew
In keeping with the options theme I decided to write a post on another fairly straight forward, easily applied strategy…covered calls. In this strategy an investors holds a long position in a stock and simultaneously sells call options on the stock to generate extra income from the position. A call option is a contract giving the owner […]

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By Justin
Over the past 8-10 months every magazine and television channel has been discussing the fact that US Real Estate prices are tanking. This trend is well covered in the macro sense but up in the Great White North we get few specifics.
I wanted to do a little comparison between 2 areas that I […]

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By Justin
Here is the continuation of my quest to produce a systematic tool for identifying if you should buy or rent.
The previous post discussed the Level of Financial Education as a key indicator. Below is a complete list of the key variables.
Key Variables affecting the Rent vs. Buy decision:
• Level of Financial Education
• Plan for Savings
• % […]

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By Andrew,
In a recent post I wrote about the deep-in-the-money calls option strategy. In the post I used Microsoft (MSFT) as an example of how to implement the strategy. Calculating the ‘premium’ based on the current stock price, the strike price, and the option cost we found that the July 2008 $24.00 calls (MSQGD.X) looked interesting. […]

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By Andrew,
In a recent post I commented on the Visa (V) IPO and how I thought you should play it. The post was also published on Seeking Alpha, which is a financial site that publishes stock related posts from various blog sites and individual contributors. On the Seeking Alpha post a number of readers have left comments […]

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