As I am writing this I am dealing with a little bit of sellers remorse. A little over a month ago I wrote that I was comfortable with holding on to a call option I bought against Capital Product Partners, LLP (CPLP). In the week that just past, I was becoming exceedingly uncomfortable with my decision. As a result of the discomfort I progressively lowered my limit price to sell the option. In my mind I was attempting to capture as much of my remaining principle as I could. Anyway, today the sale of the call option finally triggered, but at a price less than 50% of the initial principle. The net result was a loss of a fraction over 60% ($91.21). What followed after the sale was that the option price continued to rise to a point at which I could have reduced my loss to about 45%. As I analyze the charts, I am seeing that I should be happy with what I was able to keep. However, I won't know for sure until September 17th.

In other news, I successfully sold a July2010 $19 Call option against my shares of the iShares Silver Trust ETF (SLV). My usual difficulty with selling against my shares is that in order for me to make money off of every share I have to sell an option at the next highest strike price from my most expensive share. I see this as a problem since SLV has a swing difference of up to $5, a 52-week high of $19.44 and I have 20 shares that were purchased above $18. This doesn't give me much room. I am actually looking forward to getting called out of my position of SLV so that I can cash in on my capital gains finally.

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