Talk of a possible Yahoo takeover of Netflix

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Pete Najarian, cofounder of OptionMonster.com, explained how to profit from Yahoo

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“I was getting 85 cents for the Jan. 16 calls . This stock is virtually stuck somewhere between $15½ and $16½, depending on the news story of the day or of that week,” he said Wednesday. “So for that, I’m getting paid 85 cents every two months. You do the multiplication, you’ve created a pretty nice revenue stream.”

Najarian also liked such companies as ConocoPhillips

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[COP  Loading...      ()   ], Union Pacific

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[UNP  Loading...      ()   ], JPMorgan

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[JPM  Loading...      ()   ] and General Electric

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[GE  Loading...      ()   ] for the same reasons.

“All of these are in that 2½ to 3½ percent dividend yields,” he said. “By selling a two-month out-of-the-money call every six months, and allowing that if these stocks were to essentially flatline, you’re now creating not only the dividend of 3½ percent, but you’re creating another 11 percent, 14 percent — depending on which one of these stocks you pick — on top of that.”

Najarian emphasized that he wasn’t looking for performance.

“I’m not looking ConocoPhillips to explode to the upside,” he said. “If you are expecting the upside, this is not what you’re going to do.”

Yahoo closed at $15.78 per share, down 3.1 percent.

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Trader disclosure: On Jan. 4, 2011, the following stocks and commodities mentioned or intended to be mentioned on CNBC’s "Fast Money" were owned by the "Fast Money" traders: Terranova owns APC; Terranova owns OXY; Terranova owns XOM; Terranova owns VRTS; Terranova owns IBM; Terranova owns CSCO; Terranova owns AXP; Terranova owns SBUX; Terranova owns CSX; Terranova owns SWN; Terranova owns AXP; Najarian is long AAPL; Najarian is long BAC calls; Najarian is long C; Najarian is long JPM calls; Najarian is long WFC calls; Najarian is long INTC; Najarian is long YHOO; Najarian is long GE; Najarian is long INTC; Najarian is long MSFT; Najarian is long COP; Najarian is long MOS; Finerman owns AAPL; Finerman owns BAC; Finerman owns JPM; Finerman owns IBM; Finerman owns M; Finerman owns TGT; Finerman owns WMT; Finerman owns MSFT; Seymour is long AAPL; Seymour is long BAC; Seymour is long CSCO; Seymour is long GE; Seymour is long INTC; Seymour is long MON

Brian Stutland
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Dan Niles
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Gene Munster
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