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Selling covered calls with regard to rebuy and cap gains
Why would there be any realized capital gain on the stocks if you buy back the option and the stocks are not actually sold/called away? I understand I would have cap gains on the premium if there was any left after the buy back (doubtful). What am I missing here? -
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Selling covered calls with regard to rebuy and cap gains
What stocks were you selling calls on and how long out? Were you diversified-selling calls on multiple stocks at the same time to try and average out your win/losses? Why did you let the stocks get called away? Was it not worth it to you to buy the option back? I am looking at selling calls on... -
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Selling covered calls with regard to rebuy and cap gains
I understand options as they are not that complex. I am talking about the mechanism in how the options are actually written/traded/executed and how the buy back works. Here is the article < https://pocketsense.com/can-seller-call-option-buy-back-3021.html > that has me wondering how the buy... -
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Selling covered calls with regard to rebuy and cap gains
Thank you for those links, but unfortunately, they did not answer my question:( So I found this page ( https://www.schwab.com/active-trader/insights/content/managing-covered-calls which talks about "Close-out: Buy back the covered calls (at a gain or loss) and retain your stock." So they use... -
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Selling covered calls with regard to rebuy and cap gains
Hello, I am learning about selling covered calls and have some questions about what happens if the buyer of a covered call executes the option. What I am confused about is, buying back the option if it's above the strike price. I've seen that you normally can buy it back, but is that after the...