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Beginning to get confused now! It's very easily done. Money.cnn gives the results date as week commencing 21st April Rightline gives it as 29th April neither give the xd date, which is shown on yahoo.finance as 8th April. http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=DCX 7th April was the...

An added piece of learning from all this is that I need to pay closer attention to earnings and ex-div dates. Is there a free site where this can be easily accessed?

Thanks guys - that's been really helpful - hopefully for others as well.

Thanks Mav. So presumably this is what Hello-Dollars meant by being vega negative on the front month?

Mav - yes, there was an earnings report on 7th April. Nothing earth shattering, although I had neglected to take into account it going ex-div (€1.50) on 8 April. But I expected a good earnings report to push the price up towards the short strike at $45, and a bad one to hit the price and...

GATrader - I took the IV from the model calculated by Optionetics. I confirmed it by putting the figs into Hoadley and they checked out.

A week or so back (2nd April) I sold a calendar put spread for DCX. Sold the April 45 puts for average 3.69 with stock at 43 and IV of 94%. Then bought the Jul 45 puts for average 4.63 with IV of 42%. The months were traded in the ratio of 7 short Aprils to 10 long July's. The p/l curve...

.... and this is pretty good. http://www.21stcenturyinvestor.com/page/education/tco/courses/?sid=1009819909.2378

riskarb - Just to be absolutely clear, do you mean sell March and Buy April? Only out of interest - I already have a position on SEPR! :)

Can someone please explain the pro's and cons of allowing a short call to expire ITM. If, say, you have sold the Feb 100 calls as part of a wider strategy, and expiry looks like it's going to be at 105, what action do you take? Do you buy back before expiry to retain some degree of...