Land of the Rising Sun is Looking Up

Japan’s GDP grew at a very nice 1.3% in the last quarter of 2006. Japan’s economy was in the doldrums for over a decade and in the last few years has started to perk up. In the early 1970’s the term “Japan Inc” was coined, as it appeared the Japanese were going to dominate the globe with their business and manufacturing acumen. But “Japan Inc” turned into “Japan Red Ink” as Japan experienced a severe real estate bubble and faced increasing competition from Korea and China.

With the European economies considered as separate entities, Japan has the 2nd largest economy in the world after the United States. With the European economies considered in aggregate, Japan has the third largest economy after the United States and the European Union.

The Japanese economy appears on the upswing, so Japanese companies are looking bullish and worthy of consideration for a covered calls stock options investment strategy.

Listed below are some Japanese companies and indexes, which are optionable.

Using PowerOptions stock options search tools we discovered the following attractive covered calls stock options positions for Japanese companies.

A variety of covered calls positions were found with a variety of potential returns and timeframes for stock options expiration.

Three positions (two for TM and one for IIJI) have options expiration in April of 2007 with potential returns in the 2.1% to 7.1% range with only 40 days until expiration.

Some of the positions are in-the-money with nice downside protection and reasonable returns. For example, the second SNE position with 10% downside protection and 5.2% potential return.

Some of the positions are out-of-the-money with smaller downside protection but with greater upside potential than the in-the-money positions. For example, the MTU position has a very nice %if assigned potential return of 10.3% and downside protection of 4.6%.

The in-the-money/out-of-the-money tradeoff illustrates how powerful the covered calls stock options investment strategy is, as it allows investors to tailor their investments according to their own personal risk/reward profile.

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