Recent Content by KAWill70

  1. Early Exercise of Call Option to Capture Dividend

    Wikipedia has some interesting information on this subject. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exercise_%28options%29 In particular, note the...
    Post by: KAWill70, Apr 4, 2011 in forum: Options

  2. Early Exercise of Call Option to Capture Dividend

    Thanks all for your replies. I'm actually a covered call writer and just wanted to understand the risk of early exercise. Sometimes I'll sell...
    Post by: KAWill70, Apr 4, 2011 in forum: Options

  3. Early Exercise of Call Option to Capture Dividend

    I understand why a call option holder may exercise early to capture a dividend on a stock. If they do not exercise, the price of their call...
    Thread by: KAWill70, Apr 3, 2011, 20 replies, in forum: Options

  4. AYE Merger with FE, Arbitrage in Play?

    More utility stocks were in the news this week including another one of my holdings. Progress Energy (PGN) was up quite a bit over the last two...
    Post by: KAWill70, Jan 7, 2011 in forum: Stocks

  5. AYE Merger with FE, Arbitrage in Play?

    I only knew about the merger because I had held AYE for a number of years. Perhaps others can comment on sources for all the various pending...
    Post by: KAWill70, Jan 6, 2011 in forum: Stocks

  6. AYE Merger with FE, Arbitrage in Play?

    I should make one correction. AYE is at a discount relative to FE and not a premium. I was thinking in terms of FE relative to AYE. The...
    Post by: KAWill70, Jan 5, 2011 in forum: Stocks

  7. AYE Merger with FE, Arbitrage in Play?

    Thanks for the help. That makes sense now that I think about it assuming the investor retains the Long AYE and Short FE positions. AYE...
    Post by: KAWill70, Jan 5, 2011 in forum: Stocks

  8. AYE Merger with FE, Arbitrage in Play?

    FirstEnergy intends to buy Allegheny Energy and the approvals are moving along. Each share of AYE would become 0.667 shares of FE. When...
    Thread by: KAWill70, Jan 5, 2011, 6 replies, in forum: Stocks

  9. Pfizer Call Options Expiring Today 10/16/10

    Your link states that "You make money allowing people to close contracts out". That is what I suspected, but I wonder why that is necessary in...
    Post by: KAWill70, Oct 16, 2010 in forum: Options

  10. Pfizer Call Options Expiring Today 10/16/10

    Thanks for the explanation. What is the significance of 4:30 pm CST? I believe the market closed at 3:00 PM CST. Are you implying that they...
    Post by: KAWill70, Oct 15, 2010 in forum: Options

  11. Pfizer Call Options Expiring Today 10/16/10

    I should have mentioned that selling the Covered Calls opened the position. The position should be profitable even though it is a small amount of...
    Post by: KAWill70, Oct 15, 2010 in forum: Options

  12. Pfizer Call Options Expiring Today 10/16/10

    PFE was trading at 17.75 a few minutes before the close today (10/15/10), and I was able to Sell 47 October 18 Covered Calls at $0.01 per share....
    Thread by: KAWill70, Oct 15, 2010, 8 replies, in forum: Options