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Early Exercise and Assignment of Options

February 13th, 2010 · 30 Comments

When we sell a covered call option, we are undertaking an obligation for which we are well paid. Should the option holder decide to exercise that option, we must sell our shares at the specified strike price at or prior to the expiration date. This is the nature of American style options as opposed to [...]

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