Introducing the Amazing Stock Repair Strategy. This strategy
involves buying one at-the-money call option while
simultaneously selling two out-of-the-money call options on the
same stock, in the same month.

The construction of this trade is critical. First, you must make
sure to purchase exactly the equivalent amount of at-the-money
call options as shares of stock you own. Remember, each option
contract is worth 100 shares. So if you own 500 shares, then you
would purchase 5 at-the-money calls. If you owned 3000 shares
then you would purchase 30 at-the-money calls.

Now that you have purchased the correct and exact amount of
at-the-money calls, you then must sell exactly twice the amount
of out-of-the-money calls. Again, it is imperative that you sell
exactly two times the amount of out-of-the-money calls as the
amount of at-the-money calls you own.

Looking at the case in which you owned 500 shares and bought 5
at-the-money calls, you would then have to sell 10
out-of-the-money calls to properly construct the Stock Repair
Strategy.
Likewise, in the case where you owned 3000 shares and bought 30
at-the-money calls, you would then have to sell 60
out-of-the-money calls for proper Stock Repair Strategy
construction.

Heres why. The 500 shares of stock you have, along with the 5
call options you just bought, will result in an even spread
trade. The reason this is important is because without owning
the equivalent of 10 calls (or 1000 shares of the underlying
stock), then the 10 out of the money calls you sell would be
considered naked and may require an additional margin
requirement.

Selling naked calls is considered risky. However, by owning 1000
shares of stock (or 10 call options) at a lower price, your risk
is limited because your sold calls are considered covered.

The chart below shows some examples of the correct Stock Repair
Strategy ratios.

The total dollar value of the options' trade should be neutral
or very close to neutral. In this way, you can establish the
position without putting out any more money or at least very
little.

In some cases, you can even put on this trade for a credit,
whereby you can sell the out of the money calls for more than
you paid for the at the money calls. This scenario is ideal,
because then you also profit from this part of the trade also
known as a credit spread. (Remember, you will be selling the out
of the money calls in a 2:1 ratio to the at the money calls you
purchase.)

The out of the money calls will invariably be cheaper than the
calls you buy, but the 2:1 ratio makes up for the difference in
pricing. The easiest way to explain this is by example. Again,
we will go back to our XYZ example. You have purchased 500
shares of XYZ for $40.00. The stock then trades down to $30.00
leaving you with a $5,000 loss.

At this point, at $30.00, you would construct the Stock Repair
Strategy. (Option prices are for example purposes only.) You
would buy 5 February 30 calls for $1.50 and sell 10 February 35
calls for $.75 each. This strategy is known as a 1 by 2 spread.

Now that the position is in place, you are long 500 shares of
XYZ, long 5 February 30 calls and short 10 February 35 calls.
Just to clarify, if you were long 1000 shares of stock, then you
would also be long 10 February 30 calls, and short 20 February
35 calls. Remember, the ratio of stock, to purchased calls, to
sold calls is 1:1:2.