Money and Finance
With today being expiration Friday, I figured we'd revisit the call options that I sold on 200 shares of Bank of America back in mid-August. I originally performed a buy-write of 200 shares which involves purchasing the shares and simultaneously selling a call option per 100 shares purchased. The advantage to doing this is that you save on the commission by only having to pay once instead of one for the share purchase and one for the option sale. Barring over a 15% pullback in tomorrow's trading, the call options should be executed.
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- Lots Of Options
No this post isn't about all the great investment opportunities that Mr. Market is giving us, it's about all of my recent option trading/selling activity. There's been a lot more activity on this front than I expected to be reporting. My...
- Option Expiration And A New Option Position
It's time to get caught up on some option moves that have gone through in the past week or so. I had a call option get executed on January 18th and purchased 100 shares of Bank of America. Also last week I sold a call option on Halliburton. I'll...
- Recent Option Transaction
Well the third Friday of October rolled around and that means that it's expiration day for those that dabble in options. I had originally sold a call option on 100 shares of HAL which I purchased through the ESPP program at work back in August....
- Recent Option Transactions
Well yesterday I sold 2 more call options on HAL, my ESPP shares. On Monday HAL announced earnings for 1Q 2013 and the results were quite positive and the shares in turn made a nice move up. With HAL continuing the increase Tuesday and trading back...
- 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...
Money and Finance
Recent Transaction
With today being expiration Friday, I figured we'd revisit the call options that I sold on 200 shares of Bank of America back in mid-August. I originally performed a buy-write of 200 shares which involves purchasing the shares and simultaneously selling a call option per 100 shares purchased. The advantage to doing this is that you save on the commission by only having to pay once instead of one for the share purchase and one for the option sale. Barring over a 15% pullback in tomorrow's trading, the call options should be executed.
Read more »
- Lots Of Options
No this post isn't about all the great investment opportunities that Mr. Market is giving us, it's about all of my recent option trading/selling activity. There's been a lot more activity on this front than I expected to be reporting. My...
- Option Expiration And A New Option Position
It's time to get caught up on some option moves that have gone through in the past week or so. I had a call option get executed on January 18th and purchased 100 shares of Bank of America. Also last week I sold a call option on Halliburton. I'll...
- Recent Option Transaction
Well the third Friday of October rolled around and that means that it's expiration day for those that dabble in options. I had originally sold a call option on 100 shares of HAL which I purchased through the ESPP program at work back in August....
- Recent Option Transactions
Well yesterday I sold 2 more call options on HAL, my ESPP shares. On Monday HAL announced earnings for 1Q 2013 and the results were quite positive and the shares in turn made a nice move up. With HAL continuing the increase Tuesday and trading back...
- 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...