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		<title>Did our first ETF covered call: UNG</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 14:39:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>davmp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dipping our toes in the water a bit this week, we did our first ever covered call trade (also called a buy-write.)  Given our small GI portfolio size (only a couple thousand $ transferred and available for transactions at TradeKing), we chose to use the ETF known as UNG as the underlying, and a July $13 strike as the call (UNY GM).  You might be asking "Why?" about now.]]></description>
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		<title>Increasing my &#8220;capitalist&#8221; rankings by starting to trade call options</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 22:13:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>davmp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I placed my first ever order for an options trade today which I think bumps me up a notch on the capitalist side of the capitalist vs. frugality discussion common to so many personal finance blogs these days. :-)  Seriously though, it's been a month or two learning process to where I felt comfortable doing doing this.  Here's some of the things I learned along the way.

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		<title>How do you start out by investing in ETFs / stocks?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:14:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>davmp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently read an article entitled The best (and cheapest) funds around which purports to tell you when to invest using mutual funds vs. ETFs based on a cost analysis.  Unfortunately, they make a few too many generalizations that simply aren't universally true and so I disagree with their results.  (Though I do agree with their analysis of annual expense fees.)]]></description>
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