Investment Enhancing Systems, Inc. – Covered Call Analyzer

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The Covered Call Analyzer is an online investing tool that finds the best covered call buy/writes (buy the stock of ETF 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 know about the stock. These are the buy/writes you want to invest in, too.

There are two pages the first time visitor should review. These are the "Short Course" and the "How to Use This Site" pages.

Subscribers get 30 days of free service and then the monthly charge is $19.95.

Under the Results section, you will see the history of all our monitored lists and portfolio transactions.

Buzz's Blog

May 9, 2008

Next weekend is expiration weekend. It comes early this month. Expiration is always the Saturday after the third Friday of the month. The time between expirations is either 28 or 35 days, depending on where the days occur each month. The annualized return for stocks that are called or stocks that have the same price will vary depending on if it's 28 or 35 days till the next expiration date. Annualized returns are always bigger for the shorter time period.

Last week, we introduced Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) buy/writing using the Analyzer. ETFs are packages of various investment vehicles that allow the investor to diversify their portfolio. They are explained here. ETFs tend to be a more stable investment strategy, because of diversification and options can be sold on them. ETF options may have $1.00 increments rather than the $2.50 or $5.00 increments for equities. For example, the Analyzer's first result last month was Buy 300 shares of PROSHARES ULTRASHORT OIL& GAS (DUG) at $30.22 and sell 3 contracts of DUG EK (May$37.00) at $0.55. DUG is and ETF that sells oil and gas futures short (expecting them to go down). Even though the price of oil and gas continued to go up in the last month, DUG didn't do too badly. And the high strike price ($37) means that the ETF will probably not be called this month and we can write more calls. We may be able to continue selling calls for many months as added (but slow) income. There can also be a dividend element in the returns for ETFs.

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Each month, on expiration weekend, we publish and monitor three lists and two portfolios to help the investor better understand how to invest with covered calls. Take a look at how are we doing in 2008?

at May 9, 2008*

Aggressive Stocks-to-Consider	+1.0%
Conservative Stocks-to-Consider	(0.2%)
$100,000 Retirement Portfolio	+17.4%
$10,000 Aggressive Portfolio	+22.5%
ETFs-to-Consider	+0.7%
DOW	(3.9%)
NASDAQ	(7.8%)
S&P 500	(5.5%)

*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 expiration weekend.

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