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...would probably want to fire her broker. After all, the confusing world of "puts" and "calls," with its esoteric language and strategies, not to mention extreme levels of leverage, can bankrupt even accomplished speculators in a matter of days. So what on earth is Grandma doing putting on a "bull call spread...
...general, use options only in tandem with stocks in your portfolio--to lock in gains and protect against events like an earnings report or a court ruling. There are exceptions, like Grandma's bull-call spread. That's a fairly conservative play in which you buy one long-term call option and sell another at a higher strike price. You lock in most of the difference--though the stock must go up, and if it goes way up, you lose the excess gain. If you've got a big portfolio, odds are there is an options strategy for you. Talk...
...much for a warm-weather boost. More critically, the sharp rise in stocks looks suspiciously like a bear-trap rally, the kind that draws money from the sidelines as investors worry lest they miss out on a new bull market. Alas, these bounces, called suckers' rallies, prove short-lived and end in despair. Money drawn in near the top vanishes amid new lows on the major averages...
...predicting nothing here. If the economy is really slowing and Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan stops raising interest rates, the bull market may be coming back to life. But it's way too early to conclude there is a meaningful slowdown. Greenspan will want months of data before he's convinced. We've only had weeks. And bear markets are tricky. Rallies are typical. They prove nothing. Hence my concern...
...December 1998 2 - Buffeted by a bull market and a strong economy, Harvard announces that it will add $95 million of endowment money to its operating budget for 1999. With the increase, the endowment payout moves closer to its traditional $.5 percent, up from a historic low of 3.3 percent...