u/qqsubs123

Has anyone successfully hedged AAPL over the years and recovered the cost of the hedge? For some other stocks, I have been successful by buying LEAP Puts and recovering their cost by selling weekly puts against them. In most cases, the premiums are good enough to make it work. With AAPL, weekly premiums beyond the first couple of strikes are shyte, and the stock tends to make sudden $10-15 moves, which might get my LEAP Put called away.

Any other ideas?

I sold 10 call spreads on the 25th (expiring 26th) on GLD (374/375) for $150. GLD closed at $373.66 on the 26th (last Friday) at 4 pm, and my option positions still showed open at that time. Come to find out this morning that 9 of those contracts expired, but the 10th was exercised. This morning I had 100 GLD shares sold short in my account. Good news is that Gold was down today, and I ended up making $400 when I bought to close. However, I have questions:

- Why would my short calls be exercised if the stock ended below the strike price at 4 pm (and my positions showed open at that time)? The stock did cross $374 around 5 PM in after-hours trading.

- If there was a reason for the assignment, why only 100 shares and not 1000?

- Also, this is an IRA account (so no margin). Why would TOS allow me to hold a short position in a cash account?

Family of 4, currently have 2 Tello, and two Red Pocket plans. Last December, I came across a T-Mo plan where they gave 4 free 17 Pros for a plan cost of $100/m with a 24-month commitment. If I recall, they did require a port-in (I'm trying to find the details on that deal but can't), but was limited to certain carriers.

Our current phones are over 4 years old, and I'd like to take advantage of such an offer should one pop up later this year. The question is, which is the best no-contract carrier to take advantage of such a deal? Two of us (one Tello and one RP) don't care about our current numbers (so can quickly create a new line and port those numbers to T-Mo). The other two would have to port their current numbers to the new MVNO, and then on to T-Mo..

I currently have a monthly plan where the calls usage is minimal. I'd like to buy $20 of paygo to be used for calls and get a monthly plan for data/text. Questions:

- If I buy paygo, can I set it up to only use it for calls? The website provides a cost for talk, text and data.

- Can I use the same number (my current plan number) for the paygo plan as well as for the monthly data/text option?