I finally sold a WM May08 16 Call on the one lot of WM shares that I own for a deposit of 18/25 in my taxable account.  I’ve written before in this blog about why I own it.  I don’t really know my basis because I have owned 75 of the 100 shares for many, many [...]

I sold 4 TIE May08 15 Puts for $189 in my taxable account. This is the first new put I have sold since options expired last week.  I’ve been looking at a few items while watching the market go down. I think the drop in TIE in late Feb through mid March was overdone.  TIE [...]

I sold 2 ANH Oct08 10 Calls for 30.50 in an IRA account. I don’t have much excuse here.  That is only 4.54% annualized return on my basis for ANH.  The company is a real estate mortgage REIT and has suffered from the sub-prime problem.  They have been aggressively working to re-mediate their holdings and [...]