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Today had to be a day for the bulls after Europe made a big step in getting their act together and GDP came in at 2.5% for the third quarter.  I saw the first 30 points in the S&P 500 …

AFLAC, Inc ($AFL) has been on a nice run since it bottomed out recently.  Sadly, not far from the bottom I sold covered calls at the $36 strike for November only to see AFL run up past $36 and send …

Yesterday I mentioned that I didn’t think we’d get a bounce today.  However, I didn’t expect such a massive sell off.  If I dreamed it was going to be like this I would’ve made today’s trades a lot earlier.

I started …

This week has been busy for me.  I had a lot of option expire for clients last Friday and spent some time in the first part of the week repositioning their holdings and by the second half of the week …

Options expiration was mixed again for me this month.  I only had four options expire today on three underlying stocks/ETFs – UWM, UCO and AFL.  Starting with the good, two of my naked puts expired worthless.  On the other side …

I mentioned on Friday that I was going to be assigned 100 shares of AFLAC Inc (AFL).  Those hit my account this morning and I waited about an hour before deciding that I should go ahead and sell the option …

Two days after I posted my plans earlier this week for my expiring options Aflac (AFL) got spanked and lost 6% after issuing poor guidance.  This morning I took an option assignment a day early on my AFL May $55 …

This week is still enjoyable to me.  With the markets falling I’m finding some buying opportunities or more accurately, option selling opportunities.  This morning’s choice was AFLAC, Inc (AFL) again.  After I closed my December AFL naked puts for a …

I had a mixed options expiration for December with two of my options expiring while the underlying stock was trading above the strike and the other two finished below the strike.  Here are the details:

MDY December 145 naked put – …