Comments on A Slacker's Quest: Dividend Capture Strategies

I had the same problem of getting my deep money ca...

2010-03-07T00:49:11.207-05:00

I had the same problem of getting my deep money calls exercised before being entitled to the dividend.

In response I started selling calls where the premium was at least the amount of the dividend.

Here's a link to the service I built that finds covered call dividend capture trades:
http://www.dividendium.com/PremiumServices_InflatableDividends.aspx

That sucks. I hope your net debit was sufficiently...

2009-02-09T13:27:00.000-05:00

That sucks. I hope your net debit was sufficiently under the strike price so that you at least didn't lose any money in your attempts.

I could never implement strategy 2 with Interactiv...

2009-02-09T00:33:00.000-05:00

I could never implement strategy 2 with Interactive Brokers. For three days in a row, they consistently excercised my deep money calls.