Comments on: Stock options-cashless exercise http://www.zero2rich.com/stock-options-cashless-exercise.html Investing to One Million Dollars or Bust! Sat, 31 Jul 2010 15:47:40 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: Stock Trading Master http://www.zero2rich.com/stock-options-cashless-exercise.html/comment-page-1#comment-141483 Stock Trading Master Sat, 05 Jun 2010 23:58:51 +0000 http://www.zero2rich.com/?p=876#comment-141483 Yeah and that's why I don't buy and hold anymore. Buy and hold is really a dead stock investing strategy. Stocks split, both forward and reverse, companies buy each other out, hostile takeovers, CEOs go to jail, stock dilution takes place to raise money, and so on. The longer you hold a stock, the more you put yourself at risk to be blinding sided by some sort of external factor. It's good though that you were given the shares, but they were not free. You were given them in exchange for your labor at the company you worked for. Yeah and that’s why I don’t buy and hold anymore. Buy and hold is really a dead stock investing strategy. Stocks split, both forward and reverse, companies buy each other out, hostile takeovers, CEOs go to jail, stock dilution takes place to raise money, and so on. The longer you hold a stock, the more you put yourself at risk to be blinding sided by some sort of external factor. It’s good though that you were given the shares, but they were not free. You were given them in exchange for your labor at the company you worked for.

]]> By: Rob http://www.zero2rich.com/stock-options-cashless-exercise.html/comment-page-1#comment-141298 Rob Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:14:21 +0000 http://www.zero2rich.com/?p=876#comment-141298 At least as you say it was money you got from receiving free shares. With the cashless option what fees did Merrill Lynch charge? Did it work out better than if you used an alternative method to cash out the stock options? Or you did not look into it and just took the easy option? At least as you say it was money you got from receiving free shares.

With the cashless option what fees did Merrill Lynch charge? Did it work out better than if you used an alternative method to cash out the stock options?

Or you did not look into it and just took the easy option?

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