Taxes on Options: Puts and Calls
FOR individual investors out there dabbling in stock options for the first time, you need to know how these securities get taxed. For advice on those, see “Taxes on Incentive Stock Options” and “Avoiding the AMT When Exercising ISOs No, this
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Options Plays To Pocket Yield In Emerging Markets
This is how the numbers look: Buy EEM at 43.6 Sell Jan 2013 $40 call options for $6.30 ($3.60 in the money) Assume EEM receives $1 in dividends for the next year. Scenario 1: Market stays flat or rallies. Position gets called away in one year. 
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Options: Should I Exercise?
Either way, you have to decide when to exercise your options. Like most important things in life, the decision is a judgment call. By exercising now, you can potentially reduce your overall tax bill. But you will also have an immediate tax cost.
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Traders Bet VIX Won’t Snooze Forever
ramped up the number of bets that profit should the Chicago Board Options Exchange Volatility Index, or VIX, rise from its seven-month lows. The number of VIX call options in the market, or open interest, is the highest since August, when a
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Why The February 375 Chipotle Calls Could Start To Sizzle
For those of you who are unversed in options, it is the right to buy 100 shares of an equity, in our case Chipotle, at a certain price — called the strike price. Thus, for a call-option, if Chipotle’s stock price exceeds the $375 strike price
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Alliance Bernstein Vs. S&P 500 Call Options
As I was analyzing Alliance Bernstein (AB) it struck me how the stock is, in part, a call option on the stock market. Of course it’s not a pure arbitrage, but the comparison is enlightening. So, on the above assumptions, we have a fixed cost
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Jobs report drives heavy trading traffic in Ford, General Motors options
Call options on the U.S. automaker are flying off the shelves, with nearly 5 calls in play on the stock for each single put option traded. The single-largest transaction in Ford options appears to be a bull call spread that yields maximum
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