Covered Calls for April 2011

It is time to begin looking at the next month (April) covered calls at this time.  I have already started a short list of potential trades.  This list is most at-the-money and slightly out-of-money calls.  I have included the S&P Ranking as well as the volatility measures on the chart.  Here is the list. with company profiles below (click image to enlarge).

Get Rich Covered Calls 2011

 
 
 
 
 
 
F5 Networks, Inc. (F5 Networks) is a provider of technology that optimizes the delivery of network-based applications and the security, performance and availability of servers, data storage devices and other network resources. Its technology is hardware and software for application delivery networking, including application security, secure remote access, policy management, wide area network (WAN) optimization and file virtualization. Its principal products are systems that integrate its software with purpose-built hardware that incorporates commodity components. In addition, it introduced a virtual (software only) version of BIG-IP called BIG-IP LTM (VE) that is designed to run on servers and work in conjunction with its systems to provide management of virtual servers and applications. Its BIG-IP product family, which represents the bulk of its sales, supports a growing number of features and functions available as software modules, standalone appliances, or both.
Salesforce.com, Inc. is a provider of enterprise cloud computing applications. It provides a customer and collaboration relationship management (CRM), service to businesses of all sizes and industries worldwide and provides a technology platform for customers and developers to build and run business applications. Cloud computing refers to the use of Internet-based computing, storage and connectivity technology for a variety of different services. The Company designed and developed its offering, which can be deployed, customized and integrated with other software applications. It markets its service to businesses on a subscription basis, primarily through the direct sales efforts and indirectly through partners. In May 2010, the Company acquired Jigsaw. In January 2011, the Company acquired Heroku, the cloud platform for writing Ruby-based applications. In January 2011, the Company acquired Dimdim.
Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. (Alpha) is a coal supplier in the United States. The Company is a supplier and exporter of metallurgical coal for use in the steel-making process, and a supplier of thermal coal to electric utilities and manufacturing industries. It operates 66 mines and 13 coal preparation plants in Northern and Central Appalachia and the Powder River Basin. The Company operates in two segments: Eastern Coal Operations and Western Coal Operations. Eastern Coal Operations consists of the mines in Northern and Central Appalachia, its coal brokerage activities and the Company’s road construction business. Western Coal Operations consists of two Powder River Basin mines in Wyoming. During the year ended December 31, 2010, steam coal and metallurgical coal accounted for approximately 86% and 14% of its coal sales volume. During 2010, Alpha sold a total of 84.8 million tons of steam and metallurgical coal.
Medco Health Solutions, Inc. (Medco) is a healthcare company. It provides clinically-driven pharmacy services designed for private and public employers, health plans, labor unions and government agencies of all sizes, and for individuals served by Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Plans. The Company opertates in two segments: Pharmacy Benefit Management (PBM) and Specialty Pharmacy. Medco’s advanced pharmacy and clinical research are part of Medco making medicine for more than 65 million members. It offers clinically-based programs that identify drug waste. Pharmacy management includes mail-order service, retail pharmacy networks, specialty pharmacy management, call center pharmacies and reimbursement services. Its Internet-based services offer sites for clients and retail pharmacists that provide interactive tools. On January 29, 2010, the Company completed the acquisition of DNA Direct Inc. On September 16, 2010, Medco acquired United BioSource Corporation (UBC).
Newfield Exploration Company (Newfield) is an independent oil and gas company engaged in the exploration, development and acquisition of oil and gas properties. The Company’s domestic areas of operation include the Mid-Continent, the Rocky Mountains, onshore Texas, Appalachia and the Gulf of Mexico. Internationally, the Company operates in Malaysia and China. Mid-Continent division is focused primarily in the Anadarko and Arkoma basins. Its Greater Monument Butte is the Greater Monument Butte field area, located in the Uinta Basin of Utah. During the year ended December 31, 2010, approximately 82% of its proved reserves and 90% of its probable reserves were located in resource plays, primarily in the Mid-Continent and the Rocky Mountains. As of December 31, 2010, Newfield had proved reserves of 3.7 one trillion cubic feet equivalent. On February 11, 2010, the Company acquired some of TXCO Resources Inc. (TXCO’s) assets in the Maverick Basin of southwest Texas.
Holly Corporation is an independent petroleum refiner that produces light products, such as gasoline, diesel fuel, jet fuel, specialty lubricant products, and specialty and modified asphalt. The Company’s operations are organized into two reportable segments: Refining and Holly Energy Partners, L.P. (HEP). As of December 31, 2009, it owned and operated three refineries consisting of a petroleum refinery in Artesia, New Mexico that is operated in conjunction with crude oil distillation and vacuum distillation and other facilities situated 65 miles away in Lovington, New Mexico (collectively, the Navajo Refinery), a refinery in Woods Cross, Utah (the Woods Cross Refinery) and the Tulsa Refinery; owned and operated Holly Asphalt Company, which manufactures and markets asphalt products from various terminals in Arizona, New Mexico and Texas; owned a 75% interest in a 12-inch refined products pipeline project from Salt Lake City, Utah to Las Vegas, Nevada, and owned a 34% interest in HEP.
Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (Vertex) is engaged in the business of discovering, developing and commercializing small molecule drugs for the treatment of diseases. The Company is engaged in phase-I clinical trials and/or nonclinical activities with respect to a range of additional drug candidates, including compounds intended for the treatment of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, cystic fibrosis (CF) and influenza. In November 2010, the Company submitted a new drug application (NDA), requesting approval to market telaprevir in the United States for the treatment of patients with chronic HCV infection.

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