Covered Call Picks (THLD,MWW,MCP,BBY,NFLX)

Submitted by Stockmaster2 on Tue, 09/18/2012 - 23:08

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Here are today's Covered Call Picks for Tuesday 09-18-2012.

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.

Ticker	Company	Price	Strike	Bid	Return	Expiration Date
THLD	Threshold Pharmaceuticals Inc	7.41	7.5	0.7	9.40%	October 2012
MWW	Monster Worldwide Inc	8.28	9	0.8	9.10%	October 2012
MCP	Molycorp Inc	13.9	14	1.1	7.70%	October 2012
BBY	Best BUY Co Inc	17.7	18	1.2	6.60%	October 2012
NFLX	Netflix Inc	56.1	57.5	2.7	4.90%	October 2012

Threshold Pharmaceuticals Inc (THLD) is currently trading at $7.41. Its 52 week range is between $1.18 and $9.28.

Monster Worldwide Inc (MWW) is currently trading at $8.28. Its 52 week range is between $5.72 and $10.4.

Molycorp Inc (MCP) is currently trading at $13.85. Its 52 week range is between $9.4 and $53.56.

Best BUY Co Inc (BBY) is currently trading at $17.66. Its 52 week range is between $16.25 and $28.52.

Netflix Inc (NFLX) is currently trading at $56.06. Its 52 week range is between $52.81 and $162.99.

MASTERY Bottom Line (Ninja Style) MASTERY Bottom line:

There are pros and cons to writing covered calls. In theory, this strategy will out perform outright stock ownership if the stock price declines, remains the same, or slightly increases in price. The principal disadvantage of this strategy, on the other hand, is that profit potential can be limited if the underlying stock price advances sharply.