Covered Call Analyzer from Investment Enhancing Systems, Inc.

The Covered Call Analyzer is an online investing tool that finds the best covered call buy/writes (buy the stock and sell the calls). Our subscribers can run the Analyzer at any time. Thousands of combinations are analyzed using our special algorithms to determine which calls the professional traders are buying, thus driving up the premiums. They probably know something you don't about the stock. These are the buy/writes you want to invest in, too. In addition, we provide our subscribers with two lists (20 Aggressive and 20 Conservative buy/writes) and two portfolios ($100,000 Retirement and $10,000 Aggressive) each month on expiration weekend, using the best buy/writes found by the Analyzer. We publish all our results.

There are two pages the first time visitor should review. These are the "Short Course" and the "How to Use This Site"pages.
Under the Resultssection, you can see the history of all our monitored lists and portfolio transactions going back to 1999.
Subscribers get 30 days of free service and then the monthly charge is $19.95.

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July 3, 2009
What is the Analyzer telling us?
I was talking to a friend this week about the Analyzer and I told him I was interested in nothing but call premium. I said I was not interested in the company earnings, news, analyst reports, charts, graphs, insider trading – nothing. I told him I didn’t even know the company names of most of the stocks identified by the Analyzer. And why should I? If the Analyzer can find stocks that have high premiums, that’s all I need to know. Someone else has done all the work and figured out that the stock is going to go up – and they start buying calls on the stock. Calls are cheaper than the stock and produce much bigger gains if the stock rises.
Another friend said today he was very confused by what the analysts, interpreters of government and corporate data, newspapers, TV stock shows and the media in general were saying about what is going to happen in the markets. Some say up, some say down, some say we’re coming out, others, we have a way to go before the bottom, etc., etc., etc. I told him I don’t follow or care about what they are saying.
If you ran the Analyzer this week (with default parameters), you would have found that there are fewer buy/writes listed. Today lists only six (6) conservative “Stocks-to-Consider”. They are all DOW stocks. The aggressive (hi PE or no earnings) lists only seventeen (17) stocks. Three (3) are NASDAQ and fourteen (14) are DOW. We generally see over twenty and sometimes up to the limit of forty from the Analyzer. Premiums are lower – there’s only one of the twenty-three (23) found that has a call premium over $1.00.
If we go out to the August calls we get a list of sixteen (16) conservative - Two (2) are NASDAQ and fourteen (14) are DOW. The August aggressive list gives us the full forty (40) - Thirteen (13) are NASDAQ and twenty-seven (27) are DOW. But premiums aren’t much better for the extra time to August expiration - only ten (10) of the forty-four (44) listed have premiums over $1.00.
What does the Analyzer tell me from all this?

Things are slowing down – low number of buy/writes listed.
Poorer premiums – those in the know don’t see much in the immediate future (two months)
Profit-taking in the NASDAQ.
Markets flat to down for the next two months.
Must be very selective – use the Analyzer

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Each month, on expiration weekend, we publish and monitor two lists and two portfolios to help the investor better understand how to invest with covered calls. These buy/writes are identified by the Analyzer. Take a look at how are we doing vs. the Markets.

June 20 to July 3*
Aggressive Stocks-to-Consider List NASDAQ up (1.7%)	+1.3%
Conservative Stocks-to-Consider List DOW down (3.2%)	(2.3%)
January 17 to July 3*
$100,000 Retirement Portfolio - after taking $12,000 income. DOW up 0.0%	+10.6%
$10,000 Aggressive Portfolio - after plowing all premiums back into portfolio. NASDAQ up 17.5%	+53.8%

*These percentages represent the list or portfolio value at this date. We will generally not update individual pages with current prices on this date, but will update all prices on the next expiration weekend.

Investment Enhancing Systems, Inc

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Orland Park, IL 60462

708-403-2629