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$COIN 84p expiration today, extrinsic value down to 0.02. Stock down 6$ below my ATM option.
Now I stick to puts and bought shares for the free 600,- BP
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Now I learned that there are quite a few “special cash dividends” in these lists.
It seems I have to dig deeper and ignore them, as they turn out to be
no value added. “O contraire” you even have to tax the extracted value of your share price. And you have to wait a month to get your money back.
Ok, now I talked to the broker regarding $LPG.
This was not a regular dividend, but a “special cash dividend”
Works this way that the stockprice and options price gets automatically reduced by the same amount. No added profit, so if I opened the deal with 100shares and a 20call yesterday, both drop by 1$ and I need to get out for at least 19$ and have to wait for the 100$ “special dividend”. Then I’m breakeven, no profit made…(fees lost)
But I’m still a bit in trouble, as I rolled in fear of assignment, the bid-ask spread on my December calls are so wide, I can’t get out properly atm. Might take a loss instead of waiting and letting it get assigned. Don’t want the money blocked until December.
And now we know why there is no-one called away early: no profit to be made…
Again something learned: “special dividends”
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@Dawson26600204 Looks right. Interesting experiment so.
Tmw I will see more and will try to get out for profit. And then I will try a new one with more credit on the call, so it is worthwhile the trade even if I get called away
Rolled the $LPG Covered Calls for December expiration. Hope I won’t get called away, extrinsic value should be high enough.
For the try I have open 15/20/25calls
Still planning to close tmw, but will be interesting.
And I am curious how long it will take me to close the trade, as the spread on the calls is rather wide.
But with the dividend added I have some room to experiment
Now I got concerned that they will execute the 15c tonight and I will loose the trick on this…
Not bad if I open the trade below the strike, but not as good above.
Got some 20c for 19.95, that won’t make me loose anything, but the 15c for 15.15 would make me loose 15$ plus fees.
Maybe should have taken higher strike and further dated calls with higher extrinsic value…
Will see and learn