Generate Thousands in Cash on your Stocks Before Buying or Selling Them: Third Edition
You purchased 1000 shares of Lucent at $40/share. The stock is now at $0.90. Your loss $39,100. How Can you Recover this loss?Choice 1: Wait until the stock gets back to $40. May take Years!!Choice 2: Throw in another $18,000 to buy 20,000 more shares. Your average is $2.76/share.What if you do not have the $18,000 or the stock drops further to $0.50 after you buy? Better than 1 but Not a good choiceBest choice: Without spending any of your own cash sell someone the option to sell you 20,000 shares of Lucent at $2.50 within 2 years. You will receive $40,000 immediately . you will get to keep the cash if the stock reaches $2.50 at any time in 2 years. You will not lose any cash even if the stock drops to $0.50.If the stock has bottomed, (A simple test in the book will show you how) you could use part of the cash ($18,000) to buy 20,000 shares of Lucent and have $22,000 cash left.On 11/29/2002 LU closed at $1.76 and the option you sold for $2.00 are now at $1.40 . You could buy the option back for a profit of $0.60/share or $12,000 total profit and sell the 20,000 shares you just purchased for $0.80/share profit or $16,000 total profit. You have now recovered $28,000 of your $39,100In fact this is just one of the techniques described in this book that will help you recover your losses while generating cash.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.