Stock | Start Price | Strike | Expire Dt | Option Price | Current Option Price | Change |
JCOM | 32.02 | 30.00 | 6/21/13 | 3.00 | 11.00 | 267% |
KLIC | 12.45 | 12.00 | 6/21/13 | 1.65 | 0.40 | -76% |
LPS | 23.38 | 24.00 | 6/21/13 | 2.10 | 4.00 | 90% |
NSU | 4.53 | 5.00 | 6/21/13 | 0.35 | 0.05 | -86% |
VG | 2.50 | 2.00 | 6/21/13 | 0.65 | 0.75 | 15% |
MANT | 25.79 | 30.00 | 8/16/13 | 0.75 | 0.50 | -33% |
PDLI | 7.10 | 7.00 | 8/16/13 | 0.50 | 1.00 | 100% |
APOL | 20.16 | 20.00 | 1/17/14 | 3.70 | 1.94 | -48% |
GME | 23.07 | 22.00 | 1/17/14 | 3.20 | 15.51 | 385% |
IDCC | 44.63 | 43.50 | 1/17/14 | 7.65 | 6.50 | -15% |
MSFT | 27.04 | 27.00 | 1/17/14 | 2.11 | 6.00 | 184% |
QCOR | 25.53 | 25.00 | 1/17/14 | 5.60 | 8.80 | 57% |
RTN | 57.77 | 57.50 | 1/17/14 | 3.80 | 6.30 | 66% |
STX | 34.30 | 30.00 | 1/17/14 | 7.00 | 11.90 | 70% |
UIS | 17.67 | 17.00 | 1/17/14 | 3.20 | 3.50 | 9% |
AAPL | 506.09 | 500.00 | 1/17/14 | 64.00 | 21.85 | -66% |
CF | 217.85 | 210.00 | 1/17/14 | 30.03 | 8.45 | -72% |
CSCO | 21.03 | 20.00 | 1/17/14 | 2.50 | 1.74 | -30% |
DELL | 12.61 | 10.00 | 1/17/14 | 2.97 | 3.30 | 11% |
HLF | 45.06 | 45.00 | 1/17/14 | 8.45 | 4.90 | -42% |
HFC | 46.36 | 45.00 | 1/17/14 | 6.62 | 9.40 | 42% |
NUS | 42.50 | 40.00 | 1/17/14 | 7.50 | 15.50 | 107% |
SAI | 11.84 | 12.00 | 1/17/14 | 1.07 | 3.00 | 180% |
WCRX | 13.50 | 11.00 | 1/17/14 | 2.45 | 4.00 | 63% |
Average | 49% |
Commentary and Tracking of a Portfolio of Stocks using approach from "The Little Book that Beats the Market" by Joel Greenblatt aka Magic Formula Investing
Wednesday, May 08, 2013
Impressive Option
Near the start of the year (January 17th), I started looking a bit into options. Not sure if I have the courage to buy such leveraged investments, but I will tell you that when things are going good they can do quite well. I wrote down call option prices on 24 MFI stocks on the 17th of January. I tried to pick strike prices that were in the money or almost in the money, to try and be consistent. Here is how the 24 Options have done in 4 months:
But in a dropping market, you can get completely wiped out.
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Paul - I agree and that is why I said I do not have the courage to try such leveraged investments. Thanks for the note.
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