Two ETFC Dec07 12.00 calls expired. Why do I own ETFC you may ask? I ask myself the same thing. I own this lot at $19.14, way above its last closing price of $3.54. They were originally 2 Jan08 22.50 puts. I was looking at rolling them out when they were put to me in Sep. when the price was around 13.00. EFTC apparently has quite a bit of exposure to the sub-prime mess through a mortgage subsidiary and has suffered greatly because of it. I am actually optimistic that the problem is not as large as the fear of the problem and that ETFC will recover. In the mean time I will sell covered calls on the stock and watch that I don’t get called away. I sold 2 Feb 5 calls on this lot for 40.50 in a taxable account.
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December 30th, 2007 at 11:09 pm
Dec 07 E*TRADE Financial Corporation - ETFC
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