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<body> <H1><A HREF="home.htm">Altorfer System of Writing Covered Call Options</a></h1> <h2><a href="relevantlinks.htm">relevant links</a></h2> <h2><a href="relevant_links.htm">other relevant links</a></h2> <H2><A HREF="ref.htm">Joy of Making Money</a></h2> If the stock goes up to the exercise price and is called (bought), you make the difference between what you paid for the stock and what you received for the stock (the exercise price), PLUS the money you received for the option. <H3><A HREF="links/Altorfer_System.html">Altorfer System</A></H3> If the price of the stock stays below the exercise price, you will make the money you received for the option, PLUS you will retain the stock and you can then sell another option and increase you cash flow even more. <H3><A HREF="links/Arizona_Financial_Software.html">Arizona Financial Software</A></H3> If the stock goes down less than the premium you received for the option, you will make the money you received for the option and you will have lowered the cost of your stock by the amount you received for the option. <H3><A HREF="links/covered_call_options.html">covered call options</A></H3> Compare this with if you had just purchased the stock and NOT written an option - there is only ONE way to make money - the price of the stock would have to go up and you have no down side protection. <H3><A HREF="links/covered_calls.html">covered calls</A></H3> Welcome to the Joy of Making Money. This program emphasizes the joy of being in control of your own investments. <H3><A HREF="links/writing_covered_call_options.html">writing covered call options</A></H3> Fortune magazine points out: '...you must take some risks with your investments, if you want to beat, or at least compete with taxes and inflation.' <H3><A HREF="links/increase_cash_flow.html">increase cash flow</A></H3> Based on the ALTORFER SYSTEM FOR WRITING COVERED CALL OPTIONS, this software program is a powerful risk management tool designed to provide prudent and conservative investors with one of the easiest, safest, and most profitable ways to obtain the highest return on invested capital. <H3><A HREF="links/increase_cash_flow_from_investments.html">increase cash flow from investments</A></H3> You will see how easy it is to get the ultimate return on your assets with a system that uses a combination of stocks and options. You buy a stock and sell an option on that stock. The money this earns (the premium you receive for selling the option, minus the commission) gives you extra cash flow and downside protection on your stock. <H3><A HREF="links/increase_profit_from_stocks.html">increase profit from stocks</A></H3> If you just buy the stock and do not sell an option, you receive neither the extra cash flow, nor the downside protection. Details about how this works are covered in the program. <H3><A HREF="links/increased_return_on_stock_portfolios.html">increased return on stock portfolios</A></H3> Generally, you should only write options on stock that you are willing to own. <H3><A HREF="links/KEOGHs.html">KEOGHs</A></H3> This means that before purchasing the stock, you should analyze it according to the measurements appropriate for your investment program, such as p/e, book value, project earnings, and the industry. <H3><A HREF="links/make_more_money_from_stocks.html">make more money from stocks</A></H3> This program describes a very conservative use of options because it deals with options in a covered call strategy. <H3><A HREF="links/option_exchanges.html">option exchanges</A></H3> Most sophisticated investors and pension fund managers consider the judicious use of writing covered call options to be one of the safest and most reliable investment strategies. <H3><A HREF="links/risk_management.html">risk management</A></H3> For example, in their booklet 'The Value Line to Option Strategies', the esteemed investment service Value Line states: <H3><A HREF="links/Roth_IRAs.html">Roth IRAs</A></H3> Writing covered calls means selling a person the right to buy your stock at a certain price (exercise or strike price), within a certain time period (expiration cycle). <H3><A HREF="links/self-directed_IRAs.html">self-directed IRAs</A></H3> When you sell (write) an option on stock you already own, the option is 'covered' by the stock you own; therefore it is referred to as a covered call option. <H3><A HREF="links/stop_loss_strategy.html">stop loss strategy</A></H3> The money you receive is additional cash you would not have had if you just bought the stock and did not sell an option. </body>