One place that it might make sense to do so is by purchasing a deep in the money call so that you can exercise it in order to collect the dividend.
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Traders selling the now deep in-the-money calls could be cashing in on their well-placed bullish positions.
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Peak put open interest totals roughly 2, 900 contracts at the out-of-the-money December 5 strike, while another 2, 439 contracts reside at the deep-in-the-money December 10 strike.
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With the top rate on ordinary income now scheduled to go from 35% back to 39.6% on Jan. 1, it certainly makes sense to accelerate the exercise of deep in-the-money nonqualifieds that were going to expire (and thus be exercised) next year anyway, says Bernard Kent, a lawyer, CPA and managing director of Telemus Wealth Advisors in Southfield, MI.
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It is expensive to purchase these deep in-the-money calls.
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Cramer, incidentally, would buy deep-in-the-money calls on Salesforce.com ahead of a West Coast conference on cloud computing.
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Additionally, another 13, 000 contracts are open at the deep out-of-the-money 65 strike in the front three months of options.
The IMF lends money to countries which are in deep economic trouble - including Mexico and Russia in the 1990s - but attaches conditions, often controversial, to recipient countries' economic policies.
European finance ministers are pushing for another round of deep austerity cuts in return for the newest round of bailout money, and the Greeks are none too pleased about it.
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Speculative bullish activity is heaviest in the front month, with deep out-of-the-money calls seeing the most volume.
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The ugly fact is that countries that are deep in debt print money to ease this burden which in turn makes their money a bad store of wealth.
They have a deep commitment to the success of the company and to those who have risked their money in the enterprise.
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Underscoring the importance of the deal, Chief Financial Officer Chris Liddell said that in addition to dipping into its deep pile of cash, Microsoft will borrow money for the first time to make the deal happen.
Deep down, he knows that money could have been used more beneficially to promote grass roots cricket in the country had Streak not been sacked in the first place.
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Once again, the reason he was able to make so much money on his bet against mortgages was because the broadly held view in a very deep market was that the only direction for mortgage bonds was up.
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Peak call open interest, however, resides at the deep-out-of-the-money October 410 strike, where some 54, 021 contracts lie in wait.
"The important thing to consider is that the Earth has a very deep gravity well so anything you can make in situ on the Moon will save an awful lot of energy and therefore money, " he said.
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