Comparison of Aggressive Lists to the markets - January 1 to December 31, 2005
|
$10,000 Aggressive Portfolio |
-33.2% |
|
Dow |
-0.6% |
|
NASDAQ |
+1.4% |
|
S&P500 |
+3.1% |
This is a rolling portfolio and we will look at open positions and make new trades using monies from called or get-out positions each month on expiration weekend. 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 with a particular transaction. Close that window to get back to this page.
| Month | Value of Calls sold | Value at Expiration |
| January | Portfolio started in March | Portfolio started in March |
| February | Portfolio started in March | Portfolio started in March |
| March | $337 | $10,337 |
| April | $410 | $10,658 |
| May | $632 | $11,942 |
| June | $256 | $9,756 |
| July | $310 | $10,142 |
| August | $482 | $9,663 |
| September | $765 | $10,566 |
| October | $514 | $9,791 |
| November | $287 | $6,423 |
| December | $141 | $6,679 |
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Totals: |
$4,134 | $6,679 |
On March 16, 2005 (expiration weekend), Investment Enhancing Systems, Inc. initiated this $10,000 aggressive portfolio using the stocks identified in our Aggressive "Stocks-to-Consider" list by selecting buy/writes from the "Stocks with high or negative PE ratios" list. We have set the money available to $5,000 (the default value) and have reduced the commissions for purchasing the stock to $9.95 and selling the calls to $9.95 plus $1.50 per contract in our parameters page. Several low cost, on-line brokers offer these low commissions. Since it is an aggressive portfolio, we keep the premium income and stock price appreciation to the strike price in the portfolio. We update the portfolio each month on expiration weekend. Our objective is to maintain and grow the portfolio. The table below lists details of stocks bought and calls sold, and when we held the stock or exercised our get-out price (-15%). We anticipate good months and poor months, with a general gain at year end. Patience usually wins. Because this portfolio is limited in diversity, it will be much more difficult to realize the types of gains in our larger portfolios.
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