Covered Call Analyzer from Investment Enhancing Systems, Inc.

You can start this portfolio any time after January by following the instructions in our "How to" page.

This is a rolling portfolio that is updated each month on expiration weekend for our subscribers (See Subscriber “Latest Updates”). Cash received from called, sold or get-out stocks , is used for new buy/writes identified by the Analyzer on the next expiration weekend. Some stocks may remain in the portfolio and more calls will be sold against them. To see the details of all the covered call transactions in a particular month click on that month below. A new window will open and you can see just what happened for all the buy/writes in that particular month. The value and returns of the transactions for a particular month are shown at the bottom of the page. If it is the current month (“Latest Update”), the value and returns will be for the beginning of the period. At the next expiration, we will update the values and returns at the bottom of the page to reflect how the portfolio did for the month.

Month	Value of Calls sold	Total Portfolio Value including Calls sold	Percentage Change in Total Value (Jan 21 to Date)	Percentage Change in S&P500 (Jan 21 to Date)
January	$392	$26,695	+6.8%	3.5%
February	$1,110	$27,164	+8.7%	3.5%
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This is a rolling portfolio started on January 21, 2012. It 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. We consider only stocks with a PE Ratio less than 20 and at least a 0.5% dividend, making it an very Conservative portfolio. Eight (8) to ten (10) stocks are selected by the Analyzer to start 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.