On Wednesday, 5/20/09, I sold 4 KMX Jun09 12.50 Covered Calls for a net deposit of $69.00 in an IRA account.  My basis for these KMX shares is now 21.52. This trade occurred after I left town for my son’s wedding last week so I did not even know about it until Friday morning.  Then, [...]

Today I sold Covered Calls as follows.  All sales were in IRA accounts. 4 Jun09 YHOO 17 for a net deposit of $101.00.  My basis is now 21.56 for these YHOO shares. 2 Jun09 RYL 23 for a net deposit of $90.50.  My basis is now 33.59 for these RYL shares. 2 Jun09 MEE 25 for [...]

On 5/15/09, I BTC 6 NYX May09 25 Covered Calls and STO 6 NYX Jun09 27 Covered Calls for a net deposit of $373.00 in an IRA account.  My basis for these NYX shares is now 69.72, excluding dividends received. As it turned out, I could have done nothing here because NYX ended up closing [...]