Berkshire sold options contracts based on the value of four equity market indexes over the next decade.
Long-term bullish investors eyeing fresh multi-year highs by Jan. 2013 expiration appear to have sold put options on the stock in order to partially offset the cost of debit call spreads.
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The name of the man who sold those Japanese options was Nick Leeson.
Speaking of hedging market reversals, it appears that several VIX call spreads traded on the February 26 and March 35 strikes, with the February options purchased and the March options sold.
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If the authority had to sell put options, it would have to allocate part of its reserves as liabilities against the options it sold.
Doing so results in a net credit, which the trader retains as long as the stock closes between the sold strikes when the options expire.
A380 superjumbo before they sold shares or exercised stock options.
For executives who exercised stock options and then sold stock, the savings from selling in 2012 would have been smaller, closer to 6.7% of the gains in most cases, Mr. Kautter said.
But in October, two executive vice presidents, DanMoloneyDan Moloney and GregBrownGreg Brown, exercised options and immediately sold more than 100, 000 shares each, and Garriques sold 57, 000 shares after exercising a similar amount.
To hedge options that they have sold, sellers usually offset their positions by either buying or selling the underlying shares.
He is compensated via stock option grants that vest over time, but has exercised and sold just a small portion of his options.
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As of February 2012, he was the beneficial owner of 3.6% of Herbalife stock, though most of the options he exercised were immediately sold.
The 28-year-old admits he had other options, but was quickly sold on the new enterprise when he spoke to team principle Tony Fernandes and technical director Mike Gascoyne.
Existing options include Zetia and niacin, sold in prescription form by Kos Pharmaceuticals (nasdaq: KOSP - news - people ).
Tax is owed on restricted stocks when they vest similar to the idea that tax is owed on options when they are exercised as Mark Zuckerberg has just done (essentially, the stock that Zuckerberg sold in the Facebook IPO is sufficient only to pay the taxes on the options he exercised at the same time).
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Options are grouped in just two packages, not sold separately.
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Trading in these options was mixed given that roughly equal numbers of the calls were purchased and sold.
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It became clear Enron had to unload its money-losing ventures, but if it sold them at a loss earnings would stall, the stock price would fall and the options would become worthless again.
You'll get nicked a bit by the options floor traders, but probably less than the costs incorporated in the broker-sold note.
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