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Re: Dividends and options strategy
Old 05-26-2005, 12:52 PM   #15
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Originally Posted by BUM
He claims his avg. client returns are above 10%. He says that that clients respond to profits and his track record is very good. Client list keeps growing. He says 99+% of his activity is strictly writing covered puts.
This strategy belongs to the class of "often succeed moderately, but sometimes fail spectacularly."

For a very interesting analysis of option writing strategies, see Taleb: "Fooled By Randomness"

OTOH, even Buffet sometimes writes puts on stocks he wants. It's just that there isn't the flow of suitable candidates to allow construction of an ongoing program.

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