Buy Apple Inc. (AAPL)?  Every day another article is written on the subject and it's just the same old cut & paste thesis.  It's cheap... blah, blah, blah.  Mastery would rather buy Google Inc. (GOOG), T-Mobile (TMUS), Western Union (WU) and gamble a little on AK Steel (AKS).

Of the stocks in the steel sector Mastery is most intrigued by Steel Dynamics (STLD), U.S. Steel Corp (X) and AK Steel (AKS).  X and AKS have huge short interest and have been horrible investments in the past 12 months.  The exception to would be STLD which is holding up well.  The steel sector is out of favor with Wall Street, that's why we want in.

Long story short, there are a ton of high short interest stocks that have started to move in the last 30 days.  Of those choices we like Barnes & Noble Inc (BKS), United States Steel Corp (X), GT Advanced Technologies Inc (GTAT), AK Steel Holding Corp (AKS) and SUPERVALU INC (SVU).

Mastery has you covered for the next leg up.If the indices breaks out to more multi-year highs like we think they are going to, these 3 high-interest short stocks should see a squeeze.

AK Steel (AKS) leveled the playing field yesterday after a weak forecast for the entire sector.  Its why we want you to consider the best of the industry with U.S. Steel Corp (X) and let a little ride with small time Steel Dynamics (STLD).

What's a Covered Call?

The covered call is a strategy where an investor writes a call option contract (sells an option) while at the same time owning an equivalent number of shares of the underlying stock.  If this stock is purchased simultaneously with writing the call contract, the strategy is commonly referred to as a buy-write.

While you may have heard that trading options is risky business, covered calls are actually a very conservative strategy, and most brokerages even allow retirement IRA accounts to write covered calls.

What's a Covered Call?

What's a Covered Call?

Our picks today are Western Refining (WNR), AK Steel (AKS), James River Coal (JRCC) and Trina Solar (TSL).

The covered call is a strategy where an investor writes a call option contract (sells an option) while at the same time owning an equivalent number of shares of the underlying stock.