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How to handle stock options that were NOT exercised and sold @ a loss? dman81 12-30-2007
Posted by dman81 on December 30, 2007, 2:40 pm
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Hello everyone! Nice board and glad to be a member.

I recently purchased some options only to have sold them @ a loss.
They won't expire until next year but from the looks of things they
will be worthless. Now I read in a previous post, that you would just
report it as a loss in schedule D. Is that correct?

Would this spreadsheet format work okay to calculate option losses?

See this link: http://taxes.about.com/od/capitalgains/a/Cap_Gain_Worksh.htm

This would work for stocks but I'm unsure for the options. Please
advise and thank you very much!

Daniel

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