December 24th, 2008 at 3:49 pm » Comments (0)

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 [...]

December 24th, 2008 at 3:39 pm » Comments (0)

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 [...]

December 24th, 2008 at 3:32 pm » Comments (0)

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

1

Expired

GE

GEWLT

Call

Sold

20.00

1

Expired

CCJ

CCJLD

Call

Sold

20.00

2

Expired

KFT

KFTLZ

Call

Sold

32.50

2

Expired

GM

GMLC

Call

Sold

15.00

12

Expired

MWW

MWWLF

Call

Sold

30.00

1

Expired

BP

BPLJ

Call

Sold

50.00

4

Expired

BA

BALK

Call

Sold

55.00

2

Expired

DIVX

QDWLB

Call

Sold

10.00

6

Expired

CKR

CKRLC

Call

Sold

15.00

3

Expired

PDS

PDSLF

Call

Sold

30.00

2

Expired

IR

IRLI

Call

Sold

45.00

2

Expired