Hindsight is 20/20, but perhaps you could've only sold 5 given your plan to buy back upon the dip that didn't happen...your timing turned out to be unfortunate, since ASTS starting running away around June 6th. Otherwise, you might've sold 15 at a far higher strike, say 50, if that was available at the time. While your premium would've been much less, you would've received $75k upon assignment. That would've eased the sting. But maybe you specifically wanted the big premium to buy those UNH calls. Alternatively, you could've sold the longest term leap then available, probably Jan '27 at that point, at a high strike price, with the extra time boosting the premium back up some amount. Again, ultimately you'd have been paid more upon any assignment. EDIT: since some of these were rolls, then I mean you could've rolled into what I referred to above.

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Me too. I've been buying them on the dips, but I feel like I still don't have enough. But its hard to buy when 1 LEAP is 2 months worth of salary for me 

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