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Assignment & Shares

Your Shares Got Called Away — You Didn't Lose Money

The word "assignment" carries a vaguely threatening connotation for anyone new to covered calls. Something is being assigned to you — taken from you — against your will. When traders first see their shares disappear from a brokerage account with a note that the call was "assigned," the instinct i...