My goodness. Where did all that come from? I was just wondering whether selling a general category of naked options, such as out of the money calls, (getting no special price break) has shown a long run profit. Just like I might have asked whether betting every bowl game dog has. It was not a theoretical question and certainly had nothing to do with utility or other investment alternatives. When I said some of our readers might know the answer I didn't mean they would because they are smart. Rather I assumed that someone has historically checked out this system on paper, published the results, and that the results were read by someone on this forum who could tell us about them.