Red Red Wine said:
So, i'm pretty new to options. Someone help me understand something:
$MVIS
Sold $16 options at $4.30 a week or so ago (Nov 19). It is now a $6.20 option premium with a stock price over $17.
Why wouldn't the holder of said options not exercise them and turn around and sell the covered call to pocket the more than $3 in profit sitting there?
I don't mind if they take them, nice little profit for me, just trying to understand the mentality around "not" exercising the option. Would prefer they take them so I can build back on my cash balance.
Is it:
A) Dudes are simply selling their options to someone else and banking that option premium?
B) Someone is asleep and doesn't want to take the $3 profit
C) Options traders don't like owning shares, so the option on these shares just moves from person to person?
D) Other reason that I don't quite understand yet since I'm new at this?
They aren't going to excercise them early like that, they would effectively paid $20.30 for $17+ stock. The premium is going to keep the value higher than the underlying stock due to IV & theta. Also they can still sell covered calls on their call to capture premium, either diagonals or spreads (lookup "poor man's covered call").
Edit to add: right now you have $1,170 locked up in your account that you can't put to work for you. At some point (assuming the stock continues to rise) you will want to find a way to free that up. There are numerous options for doing this, but they all have their pros and cons.