Okay, we have some actual examples, that one of my trading accounts because the retirement plan I'm not paying taxes on a profits. This is from 2017. The first one is BB and T core. I bought sold and made basically 19% profit. This was a company that Hello price earnings prices sales. I didn't hold it very long.
And I got that from the money paper drip List of companies from that pool. Here's from dogs of the Dow caterpillar. Caterpillar actually bought it held on to it because it was in the bottom five. Eventually it moved off the bottom 10 list and when it did, I sold a call on it on top of it And with that, the call alone I made 200 some dollars for holding that 30 days. And then the call was exercised by whoever bought the stock for me. And I made $11,000 in profit here from holding the stock.
I'm sorry, I sold the stock at 11,000 and I made 3628 49% profit. Cisco Systems same thing. I bought it, actually, in the previous year sold it last year, made $807 and 15% profit on this one. As you can see here. I also had a question Or I purchase the stock at a discount. Somebody put the stock to me at $86 profit and I was able to sell the stock later.
GE here I actually sold the stock at a profit made $236 collected to put on it and then buying the stock. As you know GE hasn't been doing well at all this year and that's fine. I'll just sit on the stock, wait for it to come back and eventually sell it at a profit.