The mainstream “press” does not want you to pay attention to option strategies such as covered calls.  There is a conspiracy here - and it’s meant to keep you ignorant to a sector of the market that just doesn’t fit in with the “buy stocks and mutual funds” mantra that makes Wall Street money.

You see, there are no upgrades or downgrades for covered calls, LEAPs, or puts.

It’s because most mutual fun managers can’t see beyond what they have been taught, which has predominantly been to “buy stocks.”

Sure, they’ve heard of options and even know how they work, but they are scared of showing options on their portfolios because the “Average Joe” that invests in mutual funds still looks at options with tremendous skepticism.

They’re dead wrong.

The options market was created for professionals and institutional money managers, who don’t report to the general public, but to their wealthy or sophisticated constituents.

When George

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Covered Calls: Five Steps to Make Profitable Option Trades

by Karim Rahemtulla, Advisory Panelist

The mainstream “press” does not want you to pay attention to option strategies such as covered calls.

There is a conspiracy here - and it’s meant to keep you ignorant to a sector of the market that just doesn’t fit in with the “buy stocks and mutual funds” mantra that makes Wall Street money.

You see, there are no upgrades or downgrades for covered calls, LEAPs, or puts.

It’s because most mutual fun managers can’t see beyond what they have been taught, which has predominantly been to “buy stocks.”

Sure, they’ve heard of options and even know how they work, but they are scared of showing options on their portfolios because the “Average Joe” that invests in mutual funds still looks at options with tremendous skepticism.

They’re dead wrong.

The options market was created for professionals and institutional money managers,

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Yamana’s (NYSE: AUY) Golden Place to Be

Trillions and trillions of new paper is flooding Wall Street. While it’s working to stabilize world markets in the short term, it will result in longer-term debasement of paper currencies. And it’s making gold the place to be right now.

Here’s the interesting thing. Gold is normally a hedge against inflation and financial catastrophe, but it’s really not acting out its part very well. Gold stores are up. Investors are so preoccupied with the financial meltdown and the short-term weakness in the economy, that they’re ignoring the coming inflation.

Gold has moved up a little over the past few weeks, but it pulled back yesterday and gold stocks have been hammered mercilessly. This is partly due to the drop in commodity prices that have negatively impacted gold shares.

Now is a great time to establish a position in undervalued, low-cost producers of gold.

The

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Over the weekend I wrote that Suncor Energy (NYSE:SU) was looking good, that stock is up 15% since Monday.  The Masters and Flav have been pimping gold since it dove under $800. Yamana (NYSE:AUY) is up 11% over the last 5 days, ...

RBC Capital Markets out with some bullish ratings on Yamana Gold Inc. (NYSE:AUY) and Goldcorp (NYSE:GG).  Gold is down this morning to just above $800, yet the analysts ...