Investors eyeing a purchase of Life Technologies Corp (NASD: LIFE) shares, but cautious about paying the going market price of $74.90/share, might benefit from considering selling puts among the alternative strategies at their disposal. One interesting put contract in particular, is the January 2014 put at the $72.50 strike, which has a bid at the time of this writing of 50 cents. Collecting that bid as the premium represents a 0.7% return against the $72.50 commitment, or a 2.2% annualized rate...
Investors eyeing a purchase of Life Technologies Corp (NASD: LIFE) shares, but cautious about paying the going market price of $74.90/share, might benefit from considering selling puts among the alternative strategies at their disposal. One interesting put contract in particular, is the January 2014 put at the $72.50 strike, which has a bid at the time of this writing of 50 cents. Collecting that bid as the premium represents a 0.7% return against the $72.50 commitment, or a 2.2% annualized rate...
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