No charge if an option expires worthless. If an option is ITM it will be exercised (no charge), though I’ve had short puts finish ITM and exactly ATM that haven’t gotten exercised, though they usually should. It’s 0.65 cents per contract to buy or sell (but they have way better fills than HOOD and won’t fuck you on the BA spread like HOOD does—those guys are fucking criminal, and I can give examples if you want—which is why I left). I would rather pay Schwab thousands per year on that 0.65 fee than trade on RH. I know it doesn’t exactly work this way, but it does physiologically for me: I always add one penny or one tick to my STO order that I want so it essentially adds a dollar to my premium and the market “pays for” that 65 cent fee. They don’t auto close any positions (at least as far as I know)… I’m pretty sure they would allow me to take the position, if it was above what I’m able to margin, they would call the margin loan, if I don’t deposit funds or close the position myself then they would close it. E.g if I sold an 890 NVDA put and got assigned but didn’t have 89,000$ cash, my account would be long 100 NVDA on Monday and I would have a large margin loan or maybe an outright margin call, but no they wouldn’t have closed that put on Friday at 3:30. Only other time they would close a position would be a futures contract that is physically delivered they will close two days before first notice day.

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It's time for a congressional investigation of BA. My puts demand it! 

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If another BA whistleblower comes forward, I'm gonna hire him some bodyguards just to protect my puts... 

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BA 150

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I wanna short BA but i also dont wanna die 

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So r we just gonna pretend BA didn’t wack two material legal witnesses?

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DJT massive fraud: down, then up BA improved assassination techniques: up TSLA going work from unemployment office: up Considered buying puts when I saw the article at 45, but I knew what was going to happen (closes at 48)

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tl;dr [Coslidated Audit Trail, or CAT](https://www.sec.gov/divisions/marketreg/rule613-info) is a tool SEC has been working on since '08 crash to ensure it never happens again. After all kinds of obstacles and push back from Wall St, it took a decade and some more but it's finally coming online. That thing essentially lets SEC see all data at real time, meaning they can catch Wall St in the act. Citadel and a few others are suing to block it saying it'll hurt the market. In layman terms, it's like a bunch of rich people suing a regulator saying that there's no war in Ba Sing Se and no need to look at their activities. Now magically, game store shot up 37.75% in 2 days. Whether it's a rugpull, midcap bull run rotation that came very late, hedge funds doing illegal stuff rushing to cover their trails, etc, no one actually knows

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BA didn’t even have to kill anyone to be green today either

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Is doubling down on calls actually gonna work? Wtf is BA doing too? Why do I do this

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