Paying More Dues
Well, today I spent $45 on tuition at the school of Stock Markets. I made a dumb amateur move.
I meant to sell some call options for GM to get a little cash, but instead I clicked “Buy”. The order summary page looked a little strange, and I used my software engineering background to assume they had a bug. I thought “they need to fix that!” and I clicked “Submit”.
So very stupid.
When I realized what I had done I had to sell the options back to the market to close out my position. I paid $24 in commissions and $21 to Mr. Market because of the spread in bid/ask prices.
The only good thing to come out of this is that I can guarantee I won’t ever do that again. Imagine if I was dealing with thousands of dollars instead of hundreds???