Archive for February, 2009

Options trades: Ameren, Jabil Circuit and Eaton Corp.

I’ve made further adjustments to some of my stock and options positions over the last couple of days:

I sold part of my long stock position in Ameren (AEE: 25.76 +0.74%, yld: 6.02%) after the company cut its dividend by almost 40%, and then I sold some September 25-strike puts against it (the farthest out I [...]

Options trading update: New short put positions

Previously this blog has served as sort of a trading journal, which I found useful as a way to record and track my weekly option and stock trades. Each week’s post did however take a fair amount of time to put together, which eventually conflicted with other priorities.
Going forward I thought I might try [...]