I did sell a Put yesterday (see prior post), but basically I plan to be mostly inactive until the middle of next week.  It is not a normal trading week anyway and what with one thing and another I don’t expect to have much time to think about it right now anyway.  I am also [...]

Yesterday I sold 1 GE Jan09 15 Put for a net deposit of $45.25 in an IRA account.  If put to me my basis on these GE shares would be 14.55. My GE Dec08 15 Put expired worthless so I thought I’d do another.  Actually, I would be okay owning another 100 shares of GE [...]

At option expiration last Friday all of my remaining Puts and Calls expired worthless.  Some of these items are consolidated from multiple of my E*Trade accounts.  Here are the summarized results:   Stock Symbol Option Symbol Call/Put Bought / Sold Strike  Price Number of Contracts Result GE GEWXH Put Sold 15.00 1 Expired NLY NLYXL Put Sold 12.00 [...]