Friday, October 28, 2011

Profitable Trade: Realty Income (O) Covered Call

The trade with commissions is as follows:

10/4/11 Bought 100 shares of O - $3,034.27
10/4/11 STO 1 Nov 19, 2011 30 @1.75 - $164.23
10/28/11 Option assigned at 30 - $2979.95

At the time I bought Realty Income it was trading near the bottom of it's trade channel. We then sold an in the money call which I figured would get assigned. This call was assigned for the dividend. Realty Income pays a monthly dividend of 14.5 cents a share (and rising). I made $109.91 in 24 days or 3.83%, 58.24% annualized. I would have bought more but I have other Realty Income holdings and didn't want to get too heavily weighted in the REIT. Not bad for an in the money call...

BTW, here is a good article on Realty Income's future prospects.


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