Investors & Friends:

Here's a summary of our investment actions from the past week.

Option Strategies - Covered Calls

1) Blackstone Group LP (NYSE: BX) - Our Jan '12 calls reached 80+% of their maximum value, so we closed them out.

The date we opened the trade was 11/17/10.

Option Strategies - Naked Puts

2) Intel Corp (Nasdaq: INTC) - We sold July $15.00 puts.

3) DuPont (NYSE: DD) - We sold April $23.00 puts.

4) Comcast Corp (Nasdaq: CMCSA) - We sold July $13.00 puts.

Option Strategies - Collars

5) Bank of America Corp (NYSE: BAC) - We bought Bank of America shares and collared them with Jan '14 $12 calls (sold) and Jan '14 $10 puts (bought).

The reward-to-risk ratio of the investment is 7.7:1, among the highest we could find for BAC. The analysis is as follows.

Bought shares @ -$5.20
Bought $10 puts @ -$5.55
Sold $12 calls @ +$0.52
Total debit @ -$10.23

Maximum reward = $12 - $10.23 = $1.77
Maximum loss (risk) = $10 -$10.23 = -$0.23

Reward/risk = $1.77 / $0.23 = 7.7

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Etcetera

1) Bill Gross, co-chief investment officer at Pacific Investment Management Co., and Laurence Fink, chief executive officer of BlackRock Inc., discuss the European sovereign-debt crisis, the U.S. economy and investment strategy.

2) Bill Gross and Larry Fink run very different operations, but they share California roots and other similarities.