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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 – …

I only have a few options expiring today with mixed results.  The rest of my portfolio is weighted to November’s expiration.  If nothing drastic happens in the next few trading days, I’ll start working towards building up my options for December’s …

I’ll admit I got a little excited about the prospects of a little rally this morning while I was long so many positions still open long without covered calls.  That misplaced euphoria vanished quickly as the markets retreated.  By noon I …

 Today’s option expiration finished somewhat differently than I thought it was going to as of a week ago.  Here’s the breakdown of how it went down:

VXX, two August 24 Puts – I’ll be assigned 200 shares of VXX on Monday morning.  …

I have AVAV covered calls expiring tomorrow and it looks like I’ll be holding onto my shares, i.e. the options are out of the money by more than 6% with one day to go.  I’ve been debating what I should …

I tried to sell my AVAV shares on Monday, but it didn’t make it high enough to hit my limit order so today I changed my plan.  I decided to keep the shares and sell covered calls instead.  While AVAV was …

I ended up making a few option trades today, but not exactly as I planned to yesterday.  I started off this morning with CVS.  I traded CVS a while ago and been waiting for another good entry point.  They’ve been …

Barron’s reran a bullish article on AeroVironment, Inc (AVAV) in today’s print edition that they ran last Tuesday online.  After the article first came out AVAV got a nice bounce and then settled down by the weekend.  I expected it to see …