108% Gain On American Electric Option

The Aggressive Portfolio also had another big week rising 5.5% to bring the YTD return to 34.6%, well above the market performance. Our return since inception in January 2007 is an astronomical 374% in just three short years despite one of the worst market periods in history. The big winners last week on our call positions were American Electric, Par Pharmaceutical, and Paragon Shipping. We sold our call position in American Electric for a whopping 108% gain. Par and Paragon were both up 18% and 13% respectively. We also made big gains on our short put position against the SPX index. We are now up 65% on this short position just since November 27! We expect to close this position with a 100% gain by the expiration date the third week of December. All in all this was a very good week in our Aggressive portfolio. We will have a call option expire in December for a loss, but we know that is to be expected when trading options as the vast majority of options expire worthless. We plan to become more aggressive trading options in 2010 as long as the market can build strong resistance over time above the 1100 level on the S&P Index.

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