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Today was a lot more interesting than I thought it would be.  My DIA December 102 call options were assigned which meant I bought 400 shares of DIA at 102 and took a full profit on that leg of the …

The day after I closed my NDAQ position before my November options expired, NDAQ had a huge day gaining almost 5% intraday.  I regretted my timing of having to exit my position to move the cash to my new account, …

To speed up the clean up of my TD Ameritrade account before I close it I decided to close a couple of my positions early.  Depending if today’s broad market drop continues through tomorrow I might have to buy back …

My fortunes have changed greatly since the new month started and the markets have rallied back to where I thought they should been.  Less than a couple of weeks ago all, but one, of my options were sitting in the …

Last week I opened up a small position with NDAQ November naked puts with the plan to let them expire and then add to the position if the options were assigned or just re-write them if …

I keep coming back to NASDAQ OMX Group Inc (NASDAQ:NDAQ) when I see good opportunities on its chart. Long term I think NDAQ is going much higher, but since I don’t know when that day is going to get here, …

My MON July 80 call (MONGP) is expiring out of the money today, so I decided to go ahead and sell another call today to increase my chances for profit over the series of trades.  While MON was trading at $75.29 I sold …

I’ve been coming back to the NDAQ well for more profits ever since I picked them as one of my 2009 stock picks at the beginning of the year.  They are actually down from when I …

I only had three options finish in the money today (one on MON and two on SLB) and made changes to both positions to give me more downside cushion and increase my chances for a bigger profit by the end of the …