Investors considering a purchase of Marathon Oil Corp. (NYSE: MRO) stock, but cautious about paying the going market price of $34.23/share, might benefit from considering selling puts among the alternative strategies at their disposal. One interesting put contract in particular, is the January 2015 put at the $20 strike, which has a bid at the time of this writing of 87 cents. Collecting that bid as the premium represents a 4.3% return against the $20 commitment, or a 2.7% annualized rate of ret...
Investors considering a purchase of Marathon Oil Corp. (NYSE: MRO) stock, but cautious about paying the going market price of $34.23/share, might benefit from considering selling puts among the alternative strategies at their disposal. One interesting put contract in particular, is the January 2015 put at the $20 strike, which has a bid at the time of this writing of 87 cents. Collecting that bid as the premium represents a 4.3% return against the $20 commitment, or a 2.7% annualized rate of ret...
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