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Strategies & Market Trends : Option Spreads, Credit my Debit -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: KFE who wrote (1763)	11/11/2000 6:05:51 PM
From: Logos	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2317

Question to Thread: If I sell calls (or puts for that matter) on a stock or index, is there any way of guessing the likelihood that these options will be exercised early? For example, say I sell 10 MSFT Jan 2001 70's covered calls against 1000 MSFT which is trading at just over $67. Are these calls likely to be exercised next week if MSFT jumps to $80? What about $90. Is there any way at all to make it more or less likely for the calls to be exercised ahead of their expiration? Thanks much. Logos