This month I had three sets of Call assignments, two at full term.  The MFA shares were purchased for the purpose of selling the Covered Call, being called away and capturing a couple of dividends along the way.  The FCX and ANR assignments were on stocks that I considered as trades and were designed to be called away at a profit.  The ANR Put assignment was made with the goal of expiring worthless, or if assigned, to begin a series of weekly Covered Calls until called away. 

Four Covered Call contracts that would have expired in April were rolled out and are indicated as BTC in the results column.  They were all rolled out for a net deposit and have been written about in previous posts.

Here are the summarized results:  

I include those options that I rolled out or was assigned prior to their expiration date to present a more complete picture of the option transactions that I originally sold for expiration this month.  Weekly options are indicated with a “w” included with the Put or Call designation.

I have already written about any new Option transactions I have made on these expired, assigned or rolled out transaction.

This month I had two sets of Call assignments, both at full term.  The ANR assignments were on stocks that I considered as trades and were designed to be called away at a profit to me. 

Four Covered Call contracts that would have expired in March were rolled out and are indicated as BTC in the results column.  They were all rolled out for a net deposit and have been written about in previous posts.  I rolled out one Put Contract, the F $15 strike, and wrote about it in a previous post.

Here are the summarized results:

I include those options that I rolled out or was assigned prior to their expiration date to present a more complete picture of the option transactions that I originally sold for expiration this month.  Weekly options are indicated with a “w” included with the Put or Call designation.

I have already written about any new Option transactions I have made on these expired, assigned or rolled out transaction.   {optional sentence follows}    There are still a few for which I have not written new Option contracts.  I will write about them as new contracts are sold.

The following trades all occurred on Monday, 3/19/12:

I sold 4 F Jul12 $14 Covered Calls for a net deposit of $108.94 in an IRA account.  I also sold 1 F Jul12 $14 Covered Call in another IRA account for a net deposit of $23.24.

I sold 2 BALT Sep12 $7.50 Covered Calls for a net deposit of $10.48 in an IRA account.

I sold 2 TIE Sep12 $17 Covered Calls for a net deposit of $70.48 in an IRA account.

I sold 2 VZ Apr12 $40 Covered Calls for a net deposit of $58.48 in an IRA account.

I sold 8 YHOO Jul12 $17 Covered Calls for a net deposit of $329.94 in an IRA account.

The following trade occurred on Tuesday, 3/20/12:

I BTC 1 C Apr12 $34 Covered Call and STO 1 Sep12 $35 Covered Call for a net deposit of $90.49 in an IRA account.

All of the Monday trades, with the exception of the single F trade, were to place new positions on stock whose previous Covered Calls expired worthless last Friday.  The single F Covered Call sale was on some F shares that I had been sitting of waiting for the stock to appreciate.  I finally decided that it was not going to appreciate anytime soon so decided to go ahead and sell the Call.

My C Covered Call was in the money and I just wanted to capture some additional option premium while increasing the strike price by $1.  It is still in the money but I am okay if it is called away because I am profitable at this point.

This month I had two sets of Call assignments, both at full term.  Both the OLN and the WFC Call assignments were on stocks that I considered as trades and were designed to be called away at a profit to me.  The HPQ Put assignments were anticipated and are part of my ongoing attempt to move cash to stock to cash more quickly and at a profit.  I have written about Covered Calls that I wrote on the HPQ shares in earlier posts.

Two Covered Call contracts that would have expired in February were rolled out and are indicated as BTC in the results column.  They were all rolled out for a net deposit and have been written about in previous posts.

Here are the summarized results:

I include those options that I rolled out or was assigned prior to their expiration date to present a more complete picture of the option transactions that I originally sold for expiration this month.  Weekly options are indicated with a “w” included with the Put or Call designation.

I have already written about any new Option transactions I have made on these expired, assigned or rolled out transaction.

January is always a busy month for me.  One reason is that I often roll out option contracts to January because they are almost always available as Leaps for one or more years out.  Other times it is just the next available month for which I can either sell new options or roll out.  This January was no exception.

This month I had two sets of Call assignments, both at full term.  The FCX Call assignments were some of my FCX trades that I have been making with the goal of having the shares quickly called away for a profit.  As to the MWW assignment, it was one of four contracts that I had sold.  I had actually expected all four to be called away.  The WFC Put assignment was anticipated and is part of my ongoing attempt to move cash to stock to cash more quickly and at a profit.

All of the rolled out transactions were for a net deposit in the associated account.  Here are the summarized results: 

I include those options that I rolled out or were assigned prior to their expiration date to present a more complete picture of the option transactions that I originally sold for expiration this month.  Weekly options are indicated with a “w” included with the Put or Call designation.

I have already written about any new Option transactions I have made on these expired, assigned or rolled out transaction.  There are still a few for which I have not written new Option contracts.  I will write about them as new contracts are sold.