Selected Dividends and Earnings for August 30, 2009 to September 5, 2009

Monday, August 31, 2009

Dividends

• Avery Dennison Corporation (AVY) - $0.200 payable 16-Sep
• Halliburton Company (HAL) - $0.090 payable 22-Sep
• Hartford Financial Services (HIG) - $0.050 payable 1-Oct
• Schlumberger (SLB) - $0.210 payable 2-Oct

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Dividends

• Home Depot Inc (HD) - $0.225 payable 17-Sep
• Southwest Airlines (LUV) - $0.005 payable 24-Sep

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Dividends

• Bank of America Corporation (BAC) - $0.010 payable 25-Sep
• C.H. Robinson Worldwide Inc (CHRW) - $0.240 payable 1-Oct
• El Paso Corp. (EP) - $0.050 payable 1-Oct
• Ensco International (ESV) - $0.025 payable 18-Sep
• Fluor Corporation (FLR) - $0.125 payable 2-Oct
• Genuine Parts (GPC) - $0.400 payable 1-Oct
• Kimberly-Clark (KMB) - $0.600 payable 2-Oct
• Merck & Co., Inc. (MRK) - $0.380 payable 1-Oct
• Pepsi Bottling Group (PBG) - $0.180 payable 30-Sep
• PepsiCo (PEP) - $0.450 payable 30-Sep
• Praxair Inc (PX) - $0.400 payable 15-Sep
• Precision Castparts (PCP) - $0.030 payable 28-Sep
• Sealed Air (SEE) - $0.120 payable 18-Sep
• The Stanley Works (SWK) - $0.330 payable 22-Sep

Thursday, September 3, 2009

Dividends

• CenturyTel, Inc. (CTL) - $0.700 payable 21-Sep
• Coach, Inc. (COH) - $0.075 payable 28-Sep
• International Game Technology (IGT) - $0.060 payable 9-Oct
• Newmont Mining Corporation (NEM) - $0.100 payable 28-Sep
• Nike (NKE) - $0.250 payable 1-Oct
• Sara Lee (SLE) - $0.110 payable 7-Oct
• VF Corporation (VFC) - $0.590 payable 18-Sep
• Waste Management (WM) - $0.290 payable 25-Sep

Earnings

• Ciena Corporation (CIEN) before market open

Friday, September 4, 2009

Dividends

• Anadarko Petroleum Corporation (APC) - $0.090 payable 23-Sep
• Becton, Dickinson and Company (BDX) - $0.330 payable 30-Sep
• Frontier Communications Corporation (FTR) - $0.250 payable 30-Sep
• PSEG (PEG) - $0.333 payable 30-Sep

Earnings

• H&R Block, Inc. (HRB) before market open

Underlined tickers are those that are particularly interesting for me; they may be on my watch list or I may have open positions (i.e. likely naked put options or the underlying).

Covered calls, straddles, and strangles as hedges

As they say, the trend is your friend. S&P 500 is failing to breakthrough 13 day exponential moving average (EMA). I am taking this opportunity to fade the rally by adding hedges to my positions.

Most of the losses I have been suffering in this downturn have been to long positions I am holding. So today, I sold a bunch of calls slightly out of the money (OTM) 2-3 months out on many of my positions (i.e. covered calls). In addition, I am trying something new and selling call options naked against in the money puts, essentially turning them into short straddles or short strangles. I also sold some calls about support on my mess of Wachovia (WB) puts that gives me a weird P/L curve. It is basically a weird ratioed straddle with different months on the different legs. The P/L curve shifts right and up over time. The up shift is due to time decay (i.e. positive theta) and shift right is because my positive delta positions are longer duration than the negative delta positions. That is, the puts I sold are farther out than the calls I am selling.

In addition, I also sold some Washington Mutual (WM) short to hedge against my WB position. I don't usually short stock so this is somewhat of a toy position to gain experience.