Doctor Jack's Stock Medicine

Tso

Bought 1 block at 56.50

Sold at 61.65

Tol

Shorted 2 blocks at 30.75

Tol

Shorted 2 blocks of TOL at 30.09

Covered 29.77

Slb

Bought 3 blocks at 57.65, and wrote 300 Oct 57.50 calls for 1.75 contract. This is one of the juiciest premiums I have seen in little under two weeks left for expiration.

Intc

Mark Lipacis, an analyst at Prudential, and Christopher Danely at JPM are both raising their 3rd quarter guidance to INTC’s mid-point range, citing that Intel’s microprocessor shipments in the third quarter came in at above seasonal rates.

Tol

Shorted 2 blocks of TOL at 30.09

Jack, you've forgot to put your newest articles!

http://articles.financialhub.info/INTC.html

http://articles.financialhub.info/INTC2.html

Thanks for the notice, Daniel.

Slb

Interesting and profitable trade even if it was only a 2.5% gross return. Reminds me of a bull spread but instead of buying itm calls you buy the common and collect a dividend to boot. Your breakeven was at $55.28. What was your max. allowable loss had the trade gone against you..ie did you (or do you typically) set a max. absolute dollar loss before you enter the trade?

Also, wouldn't you agree that this was a very conservative trade when all is said and done? By that I mean your return was quite low but your potential loss was also quite low as compared to a straight bull call spread where you can lose all of your investment.

Lastly, is this a typical methodolgy for you? I find it interesting.

Yes, it's absolute returns versus relative returns in a very limited time frame-- 1 week.

Jack, you've forgot to put your newest articles!

http://articles.financialhub.info/INTC.html

http://articles.financialhub.info/INTC2.html

Sold the shares at 60.13 ans bought back the calls at 3.40/contract.

Interesting and profitable trade even if it was only a 2.5% gross return. Reminds me of a bull spread but instead of buying itm calls you buy the common and collect a dividend to boot. Your breakeven was at $55.28. What was your max. allowable loss had the trade gone against you..ie did you (or do you typically) set a max. absolute dollar loss before you enter the trade?

Also, wouldn't you agree that this was a very conservative trade when all is said and done? By that I mean your return was quite low but your potential loss was also quite low as compared to a straight bull call spread where you can lose all of your investment.

Lastly, is this a typical methodolgy for you? I find it interesting.

Slb

Bought 2 blocks at 57.33 and wrote 200 oct 57.50 calls at 2.05/contract.

Sold the shares at 60.13 ans bought back the calls at 3.40/contract.

Nem

Bought back the 2 blocks at 41.37 and this time I decided to go with writing 200 Nov 40 calls at 2.00/contract. I decided on “in the money” calls because I believe the stock is going lower. Since I want to accumulate it, any downside protection will be guarded by the calls. Also, holding the underlying shares pays a substantial amount of dividend.

Nem

I decided to hedge the 2 blocks of NEM which I bought at 41.33 by writing 200 October 42.50 calls at .80/contract.

Sold 2 blocks at 42.03 and bought back the calls at 90/contract.

[IIC]

oops, try this one.

http://articles.financialhub.info/sbsbsb.html

Got it...thx

Goldman's tech picks

Goldman Sachs’ tech research team earlier this week revised its lists of favorite growth stocks, favorite value stocks, and least favorite stocks. This month’s lists include a few changes: added to the roster of top growth names were Research in Motion and FormFactor, replacing Cisco Systems and KLA Tencor. Ah, but KLAC moves over to the top value picks list, where it bumps Automatic Data Processing. The list of least favorites adds Business Objects and CA, which replace Computer Sciences and Unisys.

The complete lists:

Favorite Growth Stocks:

Apple Computer (AAPL)
Research in Motion (RIMM)
Cognizant (CTSH)
Google (GOOG)
FormFactor (FORM)
Favorite Value Stocks:

Affiliated Computer Services (ACS)
KLA Tencor (KLAC)
Microsoft (MSFT)
Hewlett-Packard (HPQ)
Symantec (SYMC)
Least Favorite Stocks:

Business Objects (BOBJ)
Check Point (CHKP)
Hewitt Associates (HEW)
Micron (MU)
CA (CA)