- $8.25 comms leaves $3407.75 as a Sweet Premium received. I was on holiday in the Whitsundays and I was due to return near the expiry...

TL;DR - August puts expire in the money so I have to buy. But I will get a dividend. I now start writing calls on my newly acquired BHP...

Ok ok... That's what it would be if it was annualised... My BHP July puts that I wrote in May have expired worthless today... So I keep...

Here's what BHP looks like today: As you can see, it had been consolidating for about two weeks around $45 and was due for a breakout...

Today is the expiry date for the BHP put options I wrote on the 3rd May. Closing price was $46.25, exactly $3 above my strike price, so...

Today is my first day back from a holiday in Japan, and I wanted to make a bit of extra cash ($1500) to cover the money I spent overseas....

I think I got a pretty good price on this one.... BHP looks like a decent hold to me at the moment. They're paying a solid dividend...