Money and Finance
With Intel closing on Friday at $23.13 my September 22 2012 $25 put option was exercised. You can see the details and thought process of my selling the put option here. By selling the put option I received $52.01 in premium. In order to calculate my new cost basis you take the $25 strike for the put option and subtract the $52.01 option premium which needs to be on a per share basis and then add the applicable brokerage costs back. For these shares it looks like this:
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Yesterday I sold another call option on some of my shares of HAL, my ESPP shares. I'm currently way overweight my employer's stock. I have just over 184 shares from the first purchase that went through that has already reached LTCG treatment...
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This morning I set a limit order to buy to close my put option on Archer-Daniels Midland (ADM). I was able to purchase the put option back for $0.33 or $33. I originally sold the put option in September at the $26 strike price and received after commissions...
- Recent Transaction
Yesterday I sold another put option on Intel. I sold the $25 17 Aug 2012 put for $0.46. Less commission I received a total of $38.01 in premium for a total return of 1.52% which is annualized to 21.75%. I figured that since I want to add to my Intel position...
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With Intel currently trading at $25.60 it looks like my put option that I sold on Intel is going to expire today. It's a good and bad thing because I wouldn't have minded getting Intel at the $25 strike less the premium. But I got a pretty good...
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Today I sold 2 option contracts in an attempt to add some more income. The first contract that I sold was the BAC Jan 18 2014 $7 Put for $1.73. If the option gets exercised then my cost basis for this transaction will be $5.27. If the option expires then...
Money and Finance
Options Update
With Intel closing on Friday at $23.13 my September 22 2012 $25 put option was exercised. You can see the details and thought process of my selling the put option here. By selling the put option I received $52.01 in premium. In order to calculate my new cost basis you take the $25 strike for the put option and subtract the $52.01 option premium which needs to be on a per share basis and then add the applicable brokerage costs back. For these shares it looks like this:
Read more »
- Recent Transaction
Yesterday I sold another call option on some of my shares of HAL, my ESPP shares. I'm currently way overweight my employer's stock. I have just over 184 shares from the first purchase that went through that has already reached LTCG treatment...
- Recent Transaction
This morning I set a limit order to buy to close my put option on Archer-Daniels Midland (ADM). I was able to purchase the put option back for $0.33 or $33. I originally sold the put option in September at the $26 strike price and received after commissions...
- Recent Transaction
Yesterday I sold another put option on Intel. I sold the $25 17 Aug 2012 put for $0.46. Less commission I received a total of $38.01 in premium for a total return of 1.52% which is annualized to 21.75%. I figured that since I want to add to my Intel position...
- Intel Put Option
With Intel currently trading at $25.60 it looks like my put option that I sold on Intel is going to expire today. It's a good and bad thing because I wouldn't have minded getting Intel at the $25 strike less the premium. But I got a pretty good...
- Recent Transactions
Today I sold 2 option contracts in an attempt to add some more income. The first contract that I sold was the BAC Jan 18 2014 $7 Put for $1.73. If the option gets exercised then my cost basis for this transaction will be $5.27. If the option expires then...