All of the options that I still held at expiration expired worthless except for DSX.  I rolled out 7 options that might have resulted in stock being called away from me which I still wanted to retain for one reason or another.  Those that I rolled out are shown as BTC (Bought to Close) in the Result column.  The expired and assigned options listed below represent a total of $280.19 in option premiums, some of which may have been rolled out from prior months.   Here are the summarized results:

December 2009 Option Results

I include those options that I rolled out during the month to present a more complete picture of the option transactions that I originally sold for expiration this month.

The BTC transactions occurred on various days during the month.  In turn, I sold new Covered Calls for each of them.  I have already made individual posts for each of them.

I decided to allow the assignment of the DSX shares rather than roll them out.  My basis is slightly below the current market price and the addition of these shares will reduce my average basis for all of the DSX shares that I own.

Over the next few days I will sell and write about new Covered Call transactions for those stocks that show expired or assigned.