On 12/19/08, I BTC 4 YHOO Dec08 14 Covered Calls and STO 4 YHOO Jan09 15 Covered Calls for a net deposit of $262.01 in an IRA account.  My basis for these YHOO shares is now 22.94. Like with the RYL shares I posted about a minute ago, I did not really want to make [...]

On 12/19/08, I BTC 2 RYL Dec08 20 Covered Calls and STO 2 RYL Jan08 22.50 Covered Calls for a net deposit of $141.01 in an IRA account.  My basis for these RYL shares is now 35.36, excluding dividends received. I didn’t really want to make these transactions on options expiration day but I was going to [...]

Yesterday I BTC 2 VLO Dec08 20 Covered Calls and STO 2 VLO Mar09 25 Covered Calls for a net deposit of $95.01 in an IRA account.  My basis for these VLO shares is now 54.29. Well, my Dec08 Covered Calls didn’t last long.  I sold them just last Friday (12/12/08) and here I am [...]