Money and Finance
Yesterday the markets continued their run higher bringing along Halliburton (HAL), my employer and therefore source of ESPP shares along with it. I'm still way overweight my company's stock and with another 198 shares hitting long-term capital gains treatment on January 1, 2014 I decided to sell a long-term call to go along with it. I'm hoping to get a chance to use this as more of a trading vehicle to try and juice the option premiums that I receive but if they get called away that's fine by me as well. Read more »
- Recent Transaction
I'm reporting a trade from yesterday where I bought to close the $39 call option that I had open on HAL. I'm way overweight HAL since they are my employer and I participate in the ESPP program and I need to start selling off some shares. For...
- 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
Yesterday I sold a call option on some of my shares of HAL, ESPP shares. In early January, the latest purchase went through adding almost 200 more shares to my position. As to be expected I'm way overweight my employer's stock so I'm trying...
- Recent Transaction
Yesterday I bought back the $42 Hal 07202012 Call option that I sold in early February. When I originally sold the option I was hoping that it would just expire since I didn't want to have to deal with the extra taxes due to the shares being bought...
- Option Buyback?
Back in the beginning of February I sold a call option for HAL with a strike price of $42 for $1.60. The option expires on July 20th. Based on the sale if the option expired I would have earned $151.97 over about 5 months. This would have been a total...
Money and Finance
Recent Option Transaction
Yesterday the markets continued their run higher bringing along Halliburton (HAL), my employer and therefore source of ESPP shares along with it. I'm still way overweight my company's stock and with another 198 shares hitting long-term capital gains treatment on January 1, 2014 I decided to sell a long-term call to go along with it. I'm hoping to get a chance to use this as more of a trading vehicle to try and juice the option premiums that I receive but if they get called away that's fine by me as well. Read more »
- Recent Transaction
I'm reporting a trade from yesterday where I bought to close the $39 call option that I had open on HAL. I'm way overweight HAL since they are my employer and I participate in the ESPP program and I need to start selling off some shares. For...
- 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
Yesterday I sold a call option on some of my shares of HAL, ESPP shares. In early January, the latest purchase went through adding almost 200 more shares to my position. As to be expected I'm way overweight my employer's stock so I'm trying...
- Recent Transaction
Yesterday I bought back the $42 Hal 07202012 Call option that I sold in early February. When I originally sold the option I was hoping that it would just expire since I didn't want to have to deal with the extra taxes due to the shares being bought...
- Option Buyback?
Back in the beginning of February I sold a call option for HAL with a strike price of $42 for $1.60. The option expires on July 20th. Based on the sale if the option expired I would have earned $151.97 over about 5 months. This would have been a total...