Recent content by izzae

I'm not looking back to regret my decision but just as an opportunity to learn more. And I sincerely appreciate the sentiment and advice and the knowledge being shared.

I don't know about teaching kids to trade at 5 or 6, but just speaking from my experience, the best education and introduction to investing I ever got was during my freshman year in HS in a class on financial literacy. This was back when you would actually learn how to write checks and balance a...

Interesting - thanks for the additional info and my apologies for not chiming back in until just now - I missed the email notification of new comments on this thread. Regarding Robert Morse's suggestion to exit or roll the option - I need to look into and learn more about rolling options...

Thanks for the responses. After reading some more I'm thinking that my holding period actually did not start over once I closed my covered call position. The covered call I wrote was out-of-the-money (as would be the case for a short strangle) and therefore qualified, which should not have...

Thank you for directing me to the info. Wow - I never realized how convoluted the tax implications of options were! But I enjoy learning about this stuff. I can read about trading strategies and other topics until the cows come home, but to actually understand, I find that I have to actually try...

I'm experimenting with short strangles and have what is probably a very basic question, but can't seem to confirm what I believe to be the answer. If I sell a call and own the underlying shares, are those shares liquidated if the call option is exercised, or will I be assigned a short position...