Covered Call Analyzer from Investment Enhancing Systems, Inc.

The Covered Call Analyzer

$25,000 Aggressive Portfolio Trades for January 21, 2012

This is a rolling portfolio and we will look at open positions and make new trades using monies from called and sold positions each month on expiration weekend. The statements starting "Buy...." is what the Covered Call Analyzer tells you to do after finding the best buy/writes and calculating the values. You can start this portfolios any time after January by following the instructions in our "How to" page.

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		Income* (call premium)	Cost*	Balance
Starting Cash:				$25,000
From running the Analyzer with aggressive parameters on the weekend of Januray 21, 2011 and putting $3,000 into the money available field and assuming commissions of $9.95 per stock trade and $9.94 per call trade plus $1.50 per contract.
Initial Buy/Write:	Buy 400 shares of ONCOTHYREON (ONTY) at $6.47 (closing last trade price) and sell 4 call Out-of-the-Money contracts of ONTY1218B10 (Feb$10.00) at $1.25(closing bid price) expiring on 2/18/2012. Cost is $2,598, and income from sale of the calls is $484 and includes your commissions. Actual return if called at expiration is 72.6%. RISKY BUT PICKED CAREFULLY!!!	$484	$2,598	$22,886
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Initial Buy/Write:	Buy 300 shares of STEC (STEC) at $9.30 (closing last trade price) and sell 3 call Out-of-the-Money contracts of STEC1218B11 (Feb$11.00) at $0.30 (closing bid price) expiring on 2/18/2012. Cost is $2,800, and income from sale of the calls is $76 and includes your commissions. Actual return if called at expiration is 20.6%.	$76	$2,800	$20,162
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Initial Buy/Write:	Buy 100 shares of RESEARCH IN MOTION (RIMM) at $17.00 (closing last trade price) and sell 1 call Out-of-the-Money contracts of RIMM1218B20 (Feb$20.00) at$0.38 (closing bid price) expiring on 2/18/2012. Cost is $1,710, and income from sale of the calls is $27 and includes your commissions. Actual return if called at expiration is 18.5%.	$27	$1,710	$18,479
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Initial Buy/Write:	Buy 200 shares of CAREER EDUCATION (CECO) at $10.45 (closing last trade price) and sell 2 call Out-of-the-Money contracts of CECO1218B12 (Feb$12.00) at$0.30 (closing bid price) expiring on 2/18/2012. Cost is $2,100, and income from sale of the calls is $47 and includes your commissions. Actual return if called at expiration is 16.5%.	$47	$2,100	$16,426
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Initial Buy/Write:	Buy 200 shares of MCMORAN EXPLORATION (MMR) at $13.37 (closing last trade price) and sell 2 call Out-of-the-Money contracts of MMR1218B15 (Feb$15.00) at$0.77 (closing bid price) expiring on 2/18/2012. Cost is $2,684, and income from sale of the calls is $141 and includes your commissions. Actual return if called at expiration is 17.0%.	$141	$2,684	$13,883
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Initial Buy/Write:	Buy 100 shares of TRAVELZOO (TZOO) at $28.22 (closing last trade price) and sell 1 call Out-of-the-Money contracts of TZOO1218B32.5 (Feb$32.50) at $0.35(closing bid price) expiring on 2/18/2012. Cost is $2,832, and income from sale of the calls is $24 and includes your commissions. Actual return if called at expiration is15.6%.	$24	$2,832	$11,075
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Initial Buy/Write:	Buy 200 shares of MBIA (MBI) at $12.45 (closing last trade price) and sell 2 call Out-of-the-Money contracts of MBI1218B14 (Feb$14.00) at $0.34 (closing bid price) expiring on 2/18/2012. Cost is $2,500, and income from sale of the calls is $55 and includes your commissions. Actual return if called at expiration is 14.2%.	$55	$2,500	$8,630
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Initial Buy/Write:	Buy 200 shares of OVERSEAS SHIPHOLDING (OSG) at $13.51 (closing last trade price) and sell 2 call Out-of-the-Money contracts of OSG1218B15 (Feb$15.00) at$0.55 (closing bid price) expiring on 2/18/2012. Cost is $2,712, and income from sale of the calls is $97 and includes your commissions. Actual return if called at expiration is 14.2%.	$97	$2,712	$6,015
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Initial Buy/Write:	Buy 100 shares of TESLA MOTORS INC. (TSLA) at $26.60 (closing last trade price) and sell 1 call Out-of-the-Money contracts of TSLA1218B30 (Feb$30.00) at$0.45 (closing bid price) expiring on 2/18/2012. Cost is $2,670, and income from sale of the calls is $34 and includes your commissions. Actual return if called at expiration is 13.6%.	$34	$2,670	$3,379
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Initial Buy/Write:	Buy 100 shares of VIRNETX HOLDING (VHC) at $25.55 (closing last trade price) and sell 1 call Out-of-the-Money contracts of VHC1218B28 (Feb$28.00) at $1.45(closing bid price) expiring on 2/18/2012. Cost is $2,565, and income from sale of the calls is $134 and includes your commissions. Actual return if called at expiration is 14.4%.	$134	$2,565	$948
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Totals for January:		$1,119	$25,171	$948
Portfolio value at February 18, 2012 (expiration weekend for January 21 buy/writes) is $27,364* is up +9.5% The S&P500 average for the year so far is up 3.5%.

*After the effect of all commissions.

The stocks listed above are for illustrative and educational purposes only and should not be construed as an endorsement, recommendation, or solicitation to buy or sell any particular security.

Starting on January 21, 2012, Investment Enhancing Systems, Inc. started this $25,000 Aggressive Portfolio and it will be monitored and updated each month throughout 2012. This portfolio is started at the beginning of each calendar year. We start by running the Analyzer on the January expiration weekend with our default parameters and $3,000 for the money available. We assume default commissions as $9.95 per stock trade and $9.95 per call trade plus $1.50 per contract. Eight (8) to ten (10) stocks are selected as the basis for this portfolio, each with an initial cost of something less than $3,000 to produce a $25,000 portfolio. Extra cash is left in the portfolio for future use. We leave whatever we get from the sale of the calls in the portfolio, allowing us to grow the portfolio with both call premium and stock price appreciation. When a stock is called, sold or the get-out price is exercised, the proceeds are used to buy more stocks and sell more calls after running the Analyzer the following month. If stocks are not called, we sell more out-of-the-money calls on those stocks to increase the cash return for that month or sell a stock if it does not have good call premiums. Our objective in this portfolio is to conservatively grow this portfolio. These activities are identified in our results for the $25,000 Conservative Portfolio. We began publishing results for this portfolio in 2012.