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The profit from the call premium is a short term capital gain. No taxable event occurred with the underlying in this scenario.

While I was looking at the list, I found myself wanting to sort descending by total % and volume to see which stocks were up the most for the day and which were up on high volume. I agree it doesn't add much to your original use case.

Feature request? Make the columns sortable by clicking the column header?

Looking at the 3/19 put options on XLF and KBE and it looks like most of the options for KBE have a higher IV. I'm kind of surprised by that because KBE is an equal weight ETF. I would have expected it to be lower volatility since there's equal exposure to each component. Are equal weight ETFs...

Any thoughts on the airline ETF: JETS? Seems to me if you are willing to hold this long enough, it could be a double. Question is how long? I fully expect air travel will pick up eventually. One possible headwind is if oil prices rise dramatically. Appreciate any thoughts on this. Thanks.

I just bought a bunch of mid stream MLPs and a couple E&P MLPs. Names like: PAA, EPD, SXL, MEMP, RRMS, NTI, ETP, KMI, UAN, ENBL, MPLX. You might also look in to the preferred shares of some of the better E&Ps. I bought some LGCYO. I also have a bit of XOP here. I think buying individual E&P...

When they discover gold or oil on the moon. TT

The closest thing to the holy grail is.... dollar cost averaging into a diversified portfolio with dividend re-investment...preferably in an account where the gains are tax sheltered like a Roth IRA. I know. I know. Not what we wanted to hear, but it's true. TT

To me the earnings report doesn't look that bad, but the market doesn't agree. The issuance of new shares and sharing of additional profits with SFL is a bit of a bummer. I'm continuing to hold my position for now. TT

Earnings release tonight/tomorrow morning. Anyone else still in this one? TT

It's basically the same line of work right? TT

Stock has been moving up the last couple days. We should see some action regarding the convertible bond soon. TT

Thanks again for the reply. I just wanted to make sure I properly understood my risk in selling the calls before I got the shares assigned. TT

Thanks for the reply. So the price at the exact close is used to determine assignment not some after hours price? In theory I could end up with a naked call if I don't get the shares assigned. So far I've never seen that happen and I've sold quite a few puts over the years, so it must be a...

Last week, I sold a $51 put on the XOP ETF. Today about about 30 seconds before the close I went ahead and sold the $51 call that expires next Friday. The XOP closed at 50.85. I don't own any XOP shares but I'm expecting to have them assigned to me since it closed below the put strike price...

Wow! Hilarious! (although not for the company I'm sure). I'm curious to see how that plays out.

I'm not 100% sure, but I think IB might. I bought back a short option position that was about to expire and didn't get charged a commission. The option was bid/ask at 0.00/0.01. TT

Looks like those 400K Feb 20th $215s are toast. It will take a 2.5% rally to get those in the money. I don't see it happening in a single day. TT

Just to update. These have been delisted to the pink sheets. Now trading under symbol WHXT.

I'm taking a shot at this, but I'm buying the Feb 27th $215 calls. My thinking is the S&P 500 may stall out around 2150 ($215 SPY) and close below it next week so all those calls expire worthless. After that it's free to continue its rise. I want to give it an extra week to get above $215. TT