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By Andrew,
Lately I have been trying to implement the deep-in-the-money calls options strategy that I explain in a recent post through my paper trading account at Investopedia. On April 22nd I outlined our first success with Microsoft calls and a second idea with Corning Inc. With the stock trading at $25.73 I bought 10 of the August $20 calls […]

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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 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
Any good investor knows of the numerous options strategies available to them, but few have a strong understanding of how they should be used. There are so many that it is tough to get a good grasp of them all. Options can be very powerful investment vehicles because they provide leverage compared to owning individual stocks. I’ll […]

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