All of the options that I still held at expiration expired worthless except for MWW.  I rolled out 1 FCX option that would have resulted in stock being assigned to me.  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 $796.32 in option premiums, some of which may were rolled out from prior months.   Here are the summarized 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.

I allowed the MWW shares to be assigned to me so as to reduce my average basis on my total MWW holdings.  I now own 300 shares of MWW at an average basis of $24.46.  My basis on the 100 shares that I owned prior to this assignment was $39.45.  I will write a little more about MWW after I sell new Covered Calls on it. 

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

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 $8,636.64 in option premiums, some of which may were rolled out from prior months.   Here are the summarized results:

January 10 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 would have liked to have rolled out and up the Calls on AMZN but they were so far in the money that I had nowhere to go with them for a net credit transaction.  I could have just rolled them out to at the same strike but decided that I could do better with other stock.   My basis was 55.18 so I made almost $10 per share on the assignment.

I did not want the NLY shares called away but, as I wrote earlier, I was caught napping.  They were called away on the ex-dividend date.  I should have already rolled them out.  My basis was 11.41 so I made about $6 per share on the assignment.  I bought the shares back at 17.80 and sold new Covered Calls on them as I wrote about in an earlier post.

I have already sold new Covered Calls on many of those that expired.  I will write about them in the next few days.

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.